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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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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
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Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
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Grace
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Burns
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish
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Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.
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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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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.
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Grace is not opposed to effort it's opposed to earning.
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He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a God government in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.
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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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Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.
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