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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
Mercy
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Facts
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Ideas
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Avoiding

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