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 WILLARDA 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?
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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