Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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 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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