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.
DALLAS WILLARDWe have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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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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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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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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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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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