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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education it's just a matter of which one you get.

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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Education
Spiritual
Everyone
Matter
Like
Formation
Gets

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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.
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Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.
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Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.
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Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
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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 relation of redemption and sanctification would be the ongoing relationship between the driver and God who is directing her. Now, if God isn't directing him, he may go wild and do all sorts of things criminal and crazy.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of
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Grace is not opposed to effort it's opposed to earning.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.
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Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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