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.
DALLAS WILLARDA 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?
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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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 most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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