God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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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.
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