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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
Life
Joyful
Aim
Center
Care
Must
Heart
Love

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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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In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.
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The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
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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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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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Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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