The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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.
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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 first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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 more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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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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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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