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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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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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Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
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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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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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In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often treated as the person, and we actually do this when we talk about saving our soul.
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