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 WILLARDWhat a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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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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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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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need 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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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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.
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