Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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