Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
DALLAS WILLARDIn 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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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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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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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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