Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
DALLAS WILLARDSuppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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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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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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