If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
DALLAS WILLARDTo depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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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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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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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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