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Dallas Willard

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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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Character Children Final
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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Choice God Life Myself Style
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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Burden Choice Disappointment Failure Life Right
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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Different Driver Heart Ignition Machine Ourselves Spirit
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Anand Thakur
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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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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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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Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Hard People Right World
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Anand Thakur
Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Education Form Oneself Spiritual
Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Abundance Obedience One Liner
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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Act Believe True
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Alone Haste Loneliness Solitude
We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
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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Care Cultivation Heart Help Stand Talk Transformation Willing
What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right

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