God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
DALLAS WILLARDThere is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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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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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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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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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.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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