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.
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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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