Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
DALLAS WILLARDWe don’t have to be brilliant.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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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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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.
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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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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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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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