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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

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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
Spiritual
Christ
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When we think of taking Christ into the workplace or keeping Christ in the home, we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The specialness of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.
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He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a God government in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).
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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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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 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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would train his whole personality to depend upon the risen Christ as Christ trained Himself to depend upon the Father.
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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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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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The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
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The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.
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