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 WILLARDThe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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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 kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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