Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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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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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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 are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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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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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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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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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.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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