I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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 transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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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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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 ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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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