Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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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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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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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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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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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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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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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