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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.
Dallas Willard
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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
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Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
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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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The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.
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You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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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The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.
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Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.
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No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.
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A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.
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Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'
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Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.
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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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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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