Dallas Willard Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church for special occasions, but does not give his or her life and innermost thoughts, feelings, and intentions over to the kingdom of the heavens. Such Christians are not inwardly transformed and not committed to it.

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  Christian, Giving, Heaven

• 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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  Attitude, Effort, Grace

• 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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  Children, Heart, Grace

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ”, p.9, Tyndale House

• 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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  Grace, Saint, Use

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

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  Effort, Grace, Earning

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

• The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

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  Space, Grace, Doing Nothing

• Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

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  Grace

• My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for Himself. If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that He knew how to live. We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities He engaged in, by arranging our whole lives around the activities He Himself practiced in order to remain constantly at home in the fellowship of the Father.

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  Father, Believe, Home

• The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

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  Grace, Saint, Fuel

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

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  Effort, Grace, Earning

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