Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
DALLAS WILLARD“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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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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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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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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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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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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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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