Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
DALLAS WILLARDRelations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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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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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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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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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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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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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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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