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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Dallas Willard

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARD

Believe Live Opposite Yourself
A 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 WILLARD

Anand Thakur
You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
DALLAS WILLARD

Attention Form God Spiritual
Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
DALLAS WILLARD

Answer Believe Right True
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Anand Thakur
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

Anand Thakur
My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
DALLAS WILLARD

Choice God Life Myself Style
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Angry Ego Embrace Person Wound
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 WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The 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 WILLARD

Anand Thakur

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

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