You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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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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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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