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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

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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
Fact
Facts
True
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Live
Never
Avoiding
Mercy

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When we think of taking Christ into the workplace or keeping Christ in the home, we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The specialness of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance
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Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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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We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often treated as the person, and we actually do this when we talk about saving our soul.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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We're not here to prove we're right we're here to help people.
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I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.
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If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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