“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
DALLAS WILLARD
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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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 truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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