We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
DALLAS WILLARDIn 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Keep eternity before the children.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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