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.
DALLAS WILLARDWe cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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