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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.
Dallas Willard
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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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Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
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Keep eternity before the children.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.
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God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being right, we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Grace is not opposed to effort it's opposed to earning.
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What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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