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.
DALLAS WILLARDUnderstanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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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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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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