The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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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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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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Suppose 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.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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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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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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