The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDPrayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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