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 WILLARDThe most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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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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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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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 leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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