Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
DALLAS WILLARDKnowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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