The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
DALLAS WILLARDThe different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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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 greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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