As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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