I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
DALLAS WILLARDJesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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 most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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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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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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