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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

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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
Discipline
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education it's just a matter of which one you get.
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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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It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as a way of co-labouring with God to accomplish good things and advancing his Kingdom purposes.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
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The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21) how to possess without, like the rich young ruler, being possessed (Mark 10:22) how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.
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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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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 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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Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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