The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
DALLAS WILLARDA 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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The 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.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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?
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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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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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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