The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
DALLAS WILLARDIt’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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 aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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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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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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