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 live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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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.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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 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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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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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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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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