The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
DALLAS WILLARDGod’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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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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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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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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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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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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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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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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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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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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