Dallas Willard Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• 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.

  Dallas Willard

  Attitude, Effort, Grace

• One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

  Dallas Willard

  Hair, Effort, Missing

• Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

  Dallas Willard

  Effort, Grace, Earning

  Dallas Willard (2012). “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God”, p.254, InterVarsity Press

• Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies from efforts to pray about ‘good things’ that honestly do not matter to us. The way to get to meaningful prayer for those good things is to start by praying for what we are truly interested in. The circle of our interests will inevitably grow in the largeness of God’s love.

  Dallas Willard

  Meaningful, Prayer, Circles

• Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

  Dallas Willard

  Effort, Grace, Earning

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