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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

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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
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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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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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There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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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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Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You need to seek out others in your community who are pursuing the renovation of the heart.
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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
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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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We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth
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Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, Now what are we going to do about the darkness? It's gone!
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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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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart.
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