At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDThe main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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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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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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Suppose 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.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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