You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARDSuppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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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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