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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
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We're not here to prove we're right we're here to help people.
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It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.
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Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.
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Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
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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.
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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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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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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.
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The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
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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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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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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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