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.
DALLAS WILLARDBelief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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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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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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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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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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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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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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