Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
DALLAS WILLARDIt is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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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 will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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 kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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 hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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