The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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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 truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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