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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
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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.
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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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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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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.
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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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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.
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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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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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The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
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There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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