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.
DALLAS WILLARDYour 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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 first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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When 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.
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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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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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.
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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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