Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
DALLAS WILLARDYour mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We 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.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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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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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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