Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
DALLAS WILLARDIn one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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