Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
DALLAS WILLARDTwo ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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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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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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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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