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.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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