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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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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Hungry
God
Food
Morning
Cornflakes
People
Toast
Toasts
Eggs
Arise

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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.
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If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not go away, the questions of, What kind of person am I becoming? and What is my role in that? and so on.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.
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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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Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort it's opposed to earning.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, Now what are we going to do about the darkness? It's gone!
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