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Heart Quotes by Dallas Willard

18 Heart quotes by Dallas Willard

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If you’ve ever wondered how the inner life shapes our choices, Dallas Willard’s 18 musings on the heart offer a clear, reflective lens. His words bridge everyday experience with deeper philosophical insight, making each quote a quiet invitation to pause and consider what truly moves us.

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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.

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The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength?…

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The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very…

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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver…

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We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of…

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It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the…

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Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It 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…

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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in…

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The greatest need you and I have-the greatest need of collective humanity-is renovation of our heart. That spiritual place with in us…

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God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God.…

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In the story of the good Samaritan, Jesus not only teaches us to help people in need; more deeply, he teaches us…

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History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal…

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The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution…

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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior…

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Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You…

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Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and…

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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…

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“The Spirit makes Christ present to us and draws us toward his likeness. It is as we thus behold the “glory of the Lord”…

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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.

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We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to…

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We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

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My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for…

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