There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about 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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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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