At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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