At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDIn one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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