Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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