One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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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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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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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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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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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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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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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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