Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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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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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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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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