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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

Dallas Willard

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.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
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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Answer Believe Right True
We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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Education Form Oneself Spiritual
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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God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
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 formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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