The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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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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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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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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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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