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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.

Dallas Willard

“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
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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Anand Thakur
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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
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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Accomplishment Achievement God Life Person Yourself
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Answer Believe Right True
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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Anand Thakur
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Anand Thakur
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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Hungry Morning People Rise
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Anand Thakur
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
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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Anand Thakur
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Anand Thakur

Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.

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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.

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