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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Anand Thakur
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDPrayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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 WILLARDWe have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
DALLAS WILLARDAt the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen 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.
DALLAS WILLARDSometimes 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.
DALLAS WILLARDWe don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
DALLAS WILLARDThe key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
DALLAS WILLARDObedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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 WILLARDOf course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
DALLAS WILLARDThe truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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 WILLARDAs we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are becoming who we will be-forever.
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