At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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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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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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