One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
DALLAS WILLARDWe know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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