Quotes about Connection
Our humanity will not by itself prevent us from knowing and interacting with God just as they did.
— Dallas Willard
The heart is our point of contact with God's unlimited capacity to protect and provide, which flows to those who choose to keep their minds fixed on him.
— Dallas Willard
Deciding to fill our minds with God is how we keep our hearts. To listen to his Word and nourish our whole beings with it is not a nice thing we might do occasionally. Our very lives depend upon it.
— Dallas Willard
Had to believe or do because otherwise something bad—something with no essential connection with real life—would happen to them. The people initially impacted by that message generally concluded that they would be fools to disregard it. That was the basis of their conversion.
— Dallas Willard
That is one reason it is hard to get people to pray at church and why prayer meetings are often dead. People don't see that prayer—real, two-way conversation with God—makes any difference.
— Dallas Willard
Invite Jesus into each new situation or interaction.
— Dallas Willard
Develop the habit of seeing the world through God's eyes.
— Dallas Willard
Nowhere is it more important to be in a conversational relationship with God than in our prayer life.
— Dallas Willard
He teaches us how to be in prayer what we are in life and how to be in life what we are in prayer.
— Dallas Willard
As you engage with others, ask Jesus to bless them. You can consciously will the peace, joy, and confidence that you are experiencing to pass from you, like "living waters," to those with whom you are interacting.
— Dallas Willard
Sit in the companionship of God—the one who shows up and can be seen.
— Dallas Willard
If we do seek him, he will certainly find us, and then we, ever more deeply, find him.
— Dallas Willard