The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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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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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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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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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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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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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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