Don Bennett

Visits National Parks. Influenced by Dallas Willard. Where's the Next Adventure?

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It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Lamentations 3:26

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The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, not to gain magical power, but to know God.

Philip Yancey

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Godliness doesn’t just happen. Cooperation with the Holy Spirit and effort are required.

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Spiritual growth doesn't require a budget. It requires faithfulness to the process of becoming like Christ exposed in the Scriptures.

Dallas Willard

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Spiritual formation is the Spirit-driven process of forming our inner self into the inner being of Christ.

Dallas Willard

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I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word, I hope.

Psalm 130:7 (ESV)

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Rest is a primary mark of the condition of Sabbath in the body.

Dallas Willard

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Prayer is more than we could ever imagine because God is so much beyond what we can conceive.

David Benner

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Ideas are like the unseen part of an iceberg.

Dallas Willard

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To serve God well, we must think straight; crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.

Isaac Watts

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Notice your longing for God. Don't lose sight of this. It is the leash by which God draws you.

David Benner

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Prayer is the soul's native language. 

David Benner

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We cannot grow in prayer without some measure of effort, discomfort, self discipline, and self denial.

Pete Greig

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Ideas, whether conscious or not, govern our lives.

Dallas Willard

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Our spiritual life will be no deeper than our capacity to pay attention to God.

David Benner

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Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

Philip Yancey

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The ordered times of prayer were oriented about meditating on psalms, other Scriptures, singing hymns, and asking for the Spirit's guidance.

Thomas Oden

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I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word, I hope.

Psalm 130:7 (ESV)

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It still matters whether wrongdoers show signs of remorse, because genuine remorse tells us something very deep about the individual.

Dallas Willard

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For God alone my soul waits in silence.

Psalm 61:1 (ESV)