It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
DALLAS WILLARDTo 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with 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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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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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 idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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