Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
DALLAS WILLARDYou really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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We 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.
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