“spiritual formation is a matter of reworking all aspects of the self.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“What if our common sense has been negatively influenced by our addiction to comfort?” — Erin M. Straza Copy Share Image
“There is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like truth at all because it carries responsibility.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“We become either agents of God's healing and liberating grace or carriers of the sickness of the world.” — M. Robert Mulholland Jr Copy Share Image
I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“We need to retrain our brains, our hearts, and our wills to seek a comfort that truly satisfies.” — Erin M. Straza Copy Share Image
“By extending love and comfort to the broken places around us, we keep watch with Jesus in his sorrow.” — Erin M. Straza Copy Share Image
You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“When Jesus put on flesh, He made human existence “sacred.” Thus, when you are inhabited by Jesus through His Holy Spirit, your… — Adam L. Feldman Copy Share Image
A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Our own spiritual formation will be strengthened if, in our busy, crowded, and noisy lives, we find regular times and places for… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Everyone is in a process of spiritual formation. We are being shaped into either the wholeness of the image of Christ or… — M. Robert Mulholland Jr Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Most believers learn passively from clergy. However, no matter how good and uplifting this person's teaching, as long as the members are… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The man who is wise, therefore, will see his life as more like a reservoir than a canal. The canal simultaneously pours… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
“We dare go no further in spiritual formation until we decide, once and for all, firmly and unreservedly, that we cannot love… — David Timms Copy Share Image
“Your desire for more of God than you have right now, your longing for love, your need for deeper levels of spiritual… — Ruth Haley Barton Copy Share Image
“Are you trying to change yourself? • Are there areas of your life or character where you are resistant to God’s grace?… — Mike Ashcraft Copy Share Image
Everyone receives spiritual formation, just as everyone gets an education. The only question is whether it is a good one or a… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Most people in America, when they are exposed to the Christian faith, are not being transformed. They take one step into the… — David Kinnaman Copy Share Image
In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“What are some things you would like to change about yourself? What distracts you from focusing on the change or the spiritual… — Mike Ashcraft Copy Share Image
“But should we accept this negative view of power? Is power all bad? Specifically, can Christians share in this devaluation of power… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Some years ago a leading media personality had a high-level conference in Aspen, Colorado, on the topic of evil. (Shouldn’t that meeting… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Some of these beginners, too, make little of their faults, and at other times become over-sad when they see themselves fall into… — Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“It is love itself-not loving behavior, or even the wish or intent to love-that has the power to "always protect, always trust,… — Dallas Willard & Jan Johnson Copy Share Image
For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
If we can't even spend a short amount of time each day with God in solitude, our spiritual formation will be seriously… — Tricia Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Spiritual formation in Christ is the process whereby the inmost being of the individual (the heart, will, or spirit) takes on the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“So my fifth point is this: spiritual formation is the process whereby the inmost being of the individual takes on the quality… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
