“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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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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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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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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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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