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 WILLARDSuppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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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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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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In 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.
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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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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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