Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
DALLAS WILLARDEveryone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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The 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.
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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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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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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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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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