When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
DALLAS WILLARDFind a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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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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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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We 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.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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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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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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