You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
DALLAS WILLARD
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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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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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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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