Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
DALLAS WILLARDThere is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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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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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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