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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.

Dallas Willard

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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Education Form Oneself Spiritual
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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Character Children Final
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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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Act Believe True
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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Large Personal Relation Social Transformation World
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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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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