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.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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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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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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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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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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 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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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