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 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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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