A 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?
DALLAS WILLARDMost problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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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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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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