Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
DALLAS WILLARDPrayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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