Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
DALLAS WILLARDEveryone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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