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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.

Dallas Willard

Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
DALLAS WILLARD

Conversation Engagement God Life People Practice Relationship Spiritual
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
DALLAS WILLARD

Areas Confidence Life Ourselves Prayer Result Thinking
Suppose 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.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Church Greatness Simplicity Struggle Talk
“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Anand Thakur
We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
DALLAS WILLARD

Evidence Help People Right
Spiritual 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 WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
DALLAS WILLARD

Children Parents Relationship Separate
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Character Children Final
If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
DALLAS WILLARD

God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
DALLAS WILLARD

Abundance Obedience One Liner

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