It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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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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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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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 sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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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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