One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
DALLAS WILLARDThe main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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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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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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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.
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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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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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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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