At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Grace 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.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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