At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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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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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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 transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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