Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
DALLAS WILLARDYou can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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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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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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 ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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We 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.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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