To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
DALLAS WILLARDAt the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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