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Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.

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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
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Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
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Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.
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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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You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.
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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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Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.
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Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You need to seek out others in your community who are pursuing the renovation of the heart.
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We're not here to prove we're right we're here to help people.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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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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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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In thus sending out his trainees, [Jesus] set afoot a perpetual world revolution: one that is still in process and will continue until God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven.... He has chosen to accomplish this with and, in part, through his students.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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