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.
DALLAS WILLARDOf course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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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 in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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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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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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