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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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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Love
Life
Joyful
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Center
Care
Must
Heart

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What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union with God himself, who created and ultimately controls all other forces.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.
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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 main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.
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God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being right, we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period.
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