At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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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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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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