"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
Dallas WillardAt the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
Dallas WillardGrace 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 WillardConsumer 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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