When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and 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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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To 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.
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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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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