Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
DALLAS WILLARDEven 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Your 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.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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 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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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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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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