The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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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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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 is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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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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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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