The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes LivesHow to Live as Jesus Lived Dallas Willard, one of today's most brilliant Christian thinkers and author of The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today's 1999 Book of the Year), presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how the key to self-transformation resides in the practice of the spiritual disciplines, and how their practice affirms human life to the fullest. The Spirit of the Disciplines is for everyone who strives to be a disciple of Jesus in thought and action as well as intention. |
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User Review - dannywahlquist - LibraryThingI enjoyed this book, and some of my favorites quotes include: "Christianity has not so much been tried and found wanting, as it has been found difficult and left untried." G. K. Chesterton "to think ... Read full review
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User Review - JTracy - LibraryThingWillard provides us with an overview of Christian discipleship, coming at it from various angles. The reason we practice spiritual disciplines is no different than the reason an athlete trains and ... Read full review
Contents
The Disciplines and the Power Structures of This World | 220 |
Epilogue | 251 |
For SuperChristians Only? | 258 |
Bibliography | 266 |
Subject Index | 273 |
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Page 220 - For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Page vii - The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error.
Page 88 - All flesh is not the same flesh ; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Page 200 - If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.
Page 253 - He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake-side, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal Himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings, which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.
Page 132 - Celibacy, fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude, and the whole train of monkish virtues; for what reason are they everywhere rejected by men of sense, but because they serve to no manner of purpose; neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society ; neither qualify him for entertainment of company, nor increase his power of self-enjoyment?
Page 49 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 220 - This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness of this that constitutes part of our predicament. We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another— doubtless very different— St. Benedict.
Page 15 - until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives |
| Author | Dallas Willard |
| Publisher | Harper Collins, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0061974900, 9780061974908 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Christian Living / Spiritual Growth Religion / Christian Rituals & Practice / General Religion / Christianity / General |
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