We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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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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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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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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