At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDMost problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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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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