Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
DALLAS WILLARDIn 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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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 allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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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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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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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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