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Dallas Willard

We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Act Believe True
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.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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Beginning Fulfillment Mindset Shame Subtle Talk
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.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Believe Live Opposite Yourself
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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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Areas Confidence Life Ourselves Prayer Result Thinking
When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Follow God Love Responsibility Rule Satisfaction Sin Start
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 unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Anand Thakur
$Dallas Willard Quote - Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.$

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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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Basis Care Nation Understand

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