Quotes about Formation

but at its heart we find this message: that the true signs of apostolic ministry are to be found in the things that show that the apostle is formed by the Messiah himself, the Messiah whose death overturned all cultural expectations as well as all forms of power.

Your job is be God's tool for the purpose of forming the image of God's Son in your children.

The things you say to you about yourself, about God, and about life are very, very important because they are formative of the way you act and react to the things that God places in your life

Wisdom is about the lifelong process of being formed into mature disciples, who wander well along the unscripted pilgrimage of faith, in tune to the all-surrounding thick presence of the Spirit of God in us and in the creation around us.

But if the Bible's main purpose is to form us, to grow us to maturity, to teach us the sacred responsibility of communing with the Spirit by walking the path of wisdom, it would leave plenty of room for pondering, debating, thinking, and the freedom to fail. And that is what it does.

And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.

This was the order of march for the Israelite divisions as they set out.

And Israel and the Philistines arrayed in formation against each other.

So Asa marched out against him and lined up in battle formation in the Valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.

Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?