Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
DALLAS WILLARDThere 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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 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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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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.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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