Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
DALLAS WILLARDWe cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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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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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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