The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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To 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.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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 effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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 avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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