It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people 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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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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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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