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.
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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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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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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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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