Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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More Dallas Willard Quotes
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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