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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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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
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Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
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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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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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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
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History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.
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