What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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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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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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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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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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