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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Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen 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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat 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.
DALLAS WILLARDDisciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
DALLAS WILLARDThe transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
DALLAS WILLARDDiscipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace 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.
DALLAS WILLARDIt would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
DALLAS WILLARDSuppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
DALLAS WILLARDEven 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.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual 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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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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