In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
DALLAS WILLARDIt’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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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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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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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 becoming who we will be-forever.
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