We are becoming who we will be-forever.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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A 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.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Even 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.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Sometimes 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.
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