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.
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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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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 are becoming who we will be-forever.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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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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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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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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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