Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDThe truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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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 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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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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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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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