Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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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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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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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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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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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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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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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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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