As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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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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