This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
DALLAS WILLARDMy central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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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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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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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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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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