Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
DALLAS WILLARDWe cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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Grace 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.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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