Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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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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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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