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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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