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.
DALLAS WILLARD“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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?
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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