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God’s desire for us is that we should live in him. He sends among us the Way to himself. That shows what, in his heart of hearts, God is really like—indeed, what reality is really like. In its deepest nature and meaning our universe is a community of boundless and totally competent love.
Dallas Willard • The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
God’s much better role—which is to help you know what you really desire (Luke 11:13; Matthew 7:11).
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
God deeply loves you and desires your love in return. He longs for you to know him and spend time with him. This is why learning to love God and be loved by him should be the greatest objective of your life. Nothing else comes close in importance. Jesus called it the greatest commandment. He said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and wit
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M). Theosis opposes deism by stating in the words of Paul that “we no longer live” but that Jesus’s being lives in and through us as Jesus shares our being by entering our person through the negation of our death experiences. Faith and its formation, then, is something radically different from a program for making our institutions effective by maki
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
In God’s eyes, the greatest heroes of faith are not those who achieve prosperity, success, and power in this life, but those who treat this life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully, expecting their promised reward in eternity.
Rick Warren • The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
The sensed irrelevance of what God is doing to what makes up our lives is the foundational flaw in the existence of multitudes of professing Christians today. They have been led to believe that God, for some unfathomable reason, just thinks it appropriate to transfer credit from Christ’s merit account to ours, and to wipe out our sin debt, upon ins
... See moreDallas Willard • The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
yourself, How do I want to or need to be with God? Circle the letter in worship that most catches your attention. Worship God Open myself to God Relinquish the false self and idols of my heart Share my life with others Hear the word of God Incarnate Christ’s love for the world Pray to God
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun • Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us (Transforming Resources)
In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us—that we be men and women of prayer, people who live close to God, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it. As Merton said in the last pub
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