In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
DALLAS WILLARDBusiness is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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