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.
DALLAS WILLARDEveryone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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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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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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