If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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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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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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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