Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
DALLAS WILLARDEven 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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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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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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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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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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