God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
DALLAS WILLARDDiscipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We 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.
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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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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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The 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.
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When 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.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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We 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.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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