One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people 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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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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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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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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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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