What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
DALLAS WILLARD
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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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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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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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 does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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