A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
DALLAS WILLARDDisciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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 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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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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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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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