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.
DALLAS WILLARDGod does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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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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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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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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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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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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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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Grace 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.
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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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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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