Quotes about Connection
People are meant to live in an ongoing conversation with God, speaking and being spoken to.
— Dallas Willard
If we are not prepared to use our power of choice to turn our minds to God, then we do not have contact with God.
— Dallas Willard
Union in action with the triune God is Christian spirituality. That is where the life is drawing its substance from God.
— Dallas Willard
God seeks us. The basic nature of God is one of loving community.
— Dallas Willard
It helps to have some idea of what it would be like to go through a day with Jesus.
— Dallas Willard
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