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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Dallas Willard

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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
Occur
Failures
Precisely
Spite
Suppose

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If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not go away, the questions of, What kind of person am I becoming? and What is my role in that? and so on.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education it's just a matter of which one you get.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, Now what are we going to do about the darkness? It's gone!
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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The relation of redemption and sanctification would be the ongoing relationship between the driver and God who is directing her. Now, if God isn't directing him, he may go wild and do all sorts of things criminal and crazy.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.
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The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21) how to possess without, like the rich young ruler, being possessed (Mark 10:22) how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian-especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast lane on the straight and narrow way. He stands on the pages of the New Testament as the first level of basic transportation in the kingdom of God.
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And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.
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There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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