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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.

Dallas Willard

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 WILLARD

Anand Thakur
$Dallas Willard Quote - Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.$

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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Large Personal Relation Social Transformation World
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Anand Thakur
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Call Death Lose Time World
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Alone Haste Loneliness Solitude
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!
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
DALLAS WILLARD

Character Children Final
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
DALLAS WILLARD

Devotion Discipline God
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur

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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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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