As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
DALLAS WILLARDThe transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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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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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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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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