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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Anand Thakur
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDIn 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.
DALLAS WILLARD“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDThe kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
DALLAS WILLARDFind a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
DALLAS WILLARDDiscipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARDOne of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
DALLAS WILLARDJesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
DALLAS WILLARDMost problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDFasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
DALLAS WILLARDEveryone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
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.
DALLAS WILLARDGod may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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