Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Anand Thakur
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
DALLAS WILLARDPrayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
DALLAS WILLARDThat’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
DALLAS WILLARDGod does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
DALLAS WILLARDRelations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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 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 WILLARDThe different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
DALLAS WILLARDThe aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
DALLAS WILLARDObedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
DALLAS WILLARDMake disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
DALLAS WILLARDSuppose 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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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