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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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 WILLARDThe truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
DALLAS WILLARDHuman beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDTo 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 WILLARDWe are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
DALLAS WILLARDAs we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
DALLAS WILLARDThe will is transformed by experience, not information.
DALLAS WILLARDThe union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
DALLAS WILLARDDisciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
DALLAS WILLARDObedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
DALLAS WILLARDEveryone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
DALLAS WILLARDThe greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
DALLAS WILLARDA 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.
DALLAS WILLARDJesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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