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You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ. -- Dallas Willard
I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church. -- John Ortberg
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
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
Spiritual formation is character formation. 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
My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened. -- Augusto Pinochet
The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart. -- Dallas Willard
For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can. -- Henri Nouwen
It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines. -- Henri Nouwen
This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings. -- John Ortberg
Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth and vitality stem from what we actually do with our lives, from the habits we form, and from the character that results. -- Dallas Willard
A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school. -- Tony Campolo
The real issue relating to exclusiveness is whether or not the Christian actually has a relationship with God, a presence of God, which non-Christians do not have. Apart from Christian spiritual formation as described here, I believe there is little value in claiming exclusiveness for the Christian way. -- Dallas Willard
Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is the process of establishing the character of Christ in the person. That's all it is. -- Dallas Willard
Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. -- John Ortberg
One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs. -- Henri Nouwen
Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience. -- John Ortberg
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his. -- Dallas Willard
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside. -- Dallas Willard
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself. -- Dallas Willard

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