Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
DALLAS WILLARDYour 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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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 aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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 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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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