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.
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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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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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 key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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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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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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