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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.

Dallas Willard

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARD

Believe Live Opposite Yourself
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
DALLAS WILLARD

Burden Choice Disappointment Failure Life Right
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
We don’t have to be brilliant.
DALLAS WILLARD

Brilliant One Liner
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
DALLAS WILLARD

Built God Habitat Live Natural
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
DALLAS WILLARD

Clever God Thinking Way
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Call Death Lose Time World
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
DALLAS WILLARD

Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality

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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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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