Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
DALLAS WILLARDYou really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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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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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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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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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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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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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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