You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARDIf we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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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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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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