At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDObedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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