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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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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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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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If 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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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