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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

Dallas Willard

Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
DALLAS WILLARD

Areas Confidence Life Ourselves Prayer Result Thinking
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
DALLAS WILLARD

God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Easy Myself Obedience Way
It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Basis Care Nation Understand
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

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