Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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Keep eternity before the children.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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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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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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 cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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