Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
DALLAS WILLARDKeep eternity before the children.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your 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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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