At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDWe don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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