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 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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