The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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