The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
DALLAS WILLARDYou really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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