The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDYour mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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 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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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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