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#1

“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
― Socrates

tags: change, self-determination, self-development

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#2

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

tags: contentment, philosophy

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#3

“Every action has its pleasures and its price.”
― Socrates

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#4

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
― Socrates

tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom

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#5

“Everyone is in a process of spiritual formation. We are being shaped into either the wholeness of the image of Christ or a horribly destructive caricature of that image--destructive not only to ourselves but also to others, for we inflict our brokenness upon them . . . The direction of our spiritual growth infuses all we do with intimations of either Life or Death.”
― M. Robert Mulholland Jr., Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation

tags: spiritual-formation

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#6

“Discipleship and spiritual formation are less about erecting an edifice of knowledge than they are a matter of developing a Christian know-how that intuitively understands the world in light of the Gospel.”
― James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

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#7

“We become either agents of God's healing and liberating grace or carriers of the sickness of the world.”
― M. Robert Mulholland Jr., Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation

tags: spiritual-formation

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#8

“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.”
― Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ with Bonus Content

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#9

“The romance of Creator and creation is far more wonderful and profound than anyone can ever capture in words.”
― Brian D. McLaren, We Make the Road by Walking: A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation

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#10

“Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit – A Guide to Encountering God Through the Five Classical Stages

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#11

“Spiritual formation is not about steps or stages on the way to perfection. It’s about the movements from the mind to the heart through prayer in its many forms that reunite us with God, each other, and our truest selves.”
― Henri Nouwen

tags: inspirational

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#12

“He must increase, but I must decrease.”
― John the Baptist

tags: spiritual-formation

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#13

“Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.”
― James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

tags: discipleship

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#14

“This philosophy of spiritual formation through the consumption of external experiences creates worship junkies — Christians who leap from one mountaintop to another, one spiritual high to another, in search of a glory that does not fade.”
― Skye Jethani

tags: christianity, consumption, spiritual-formation, worship

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#15

“When Jesus put on flesh, He made human existence “sacred.” Thus, when you are inhabited by Jesus through His Holy Spirit, your life takes on the “sacred” characteristic as well. This does not mean that you become God or incapable of sinning like Jesus was in His incarnation. However, it does mean that something is qualitatively different about you at the core.”
― Adam L. Feldman, Journaling: Catalyzing Spiritual Growth Through Reflection

tags: christianity, faith, journaling, spiritual-formation, spiritual-growth

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#16

“While our sight is limited, so is our formation. While salvation entails many things (forgiveness, imputation of righteousness and so on), ultimately, it entails a new relationship. The sinner, cut off from the Father by his wrath now stands before him as child. She who was once rejected before God is now the beloved before him.”
― Kyle Strobel, Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards

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#17

“What is spiritual formation? The goal of spiritual formation is a maturing faith and a deepening relationship with Jesus Christ, through which we become more like Christ in the living of our everyday lives in the world.”
― Catherine Stonehouse, Joining Children on the Spiritual Journey: Nurturing a Life of Faith

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#18

“Spiritual formation in Christ moves toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.”
― Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

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#19

“If I was blind, I would still see you.
If I was deaf, I would still hear you.
If I was mute, I would still speak to you.
If I was crippled, I would still carry you.
If I was dying, I would still live for you.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: inspirational-quotations, inspirational-quotes, love-quotations, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, relationship-quotes, spiritual-quotations, spiritual-quotes, spirituality-quotes

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#20

“To be blind momentarily when light hits your eyes is better than to be blind permanently when darkness hits your soul.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: blind-quotes, darkness-quotes, faith-quotations, faith-quote, faith-quotes, guru-quotes, inner-light-quotes, light-quotations, light-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, sage-quotes, soul-quotes, spiritual-quotations, spiritual-quotes

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#21

“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
― Deitrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

tags: calling, missions, persecution

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#22

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

tags: art, calling, life

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#23

“Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”
― Vincent van Gogh

tags: calling, paycheck, profession

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#24

“God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

tags: calling

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#25

“A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.”
― David Winter, What's In a Word: 40 Words of Jesus for the 40 Days of Lent

tags: calling, catholic, lost, purpose, religion, value, worth

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#26

“The need itself is not the call. ”
― Charles E. Hummel

tags: boundaries, calling, christian-living

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#27

“To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.”
― Mark Galli

tags: calling, god, weakness

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#28

“As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.”
― Mark Galli, Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit

tags: calling, freedom, god

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#29

“I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: avoid, avoidance, born, calling, destiny, escape, fake, false, fear, flee, grave, mission, play, roles, run, stage, wasted

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