We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are becoming who we will be-forever.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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