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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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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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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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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with 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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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
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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 disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess certain views as their own but apply their growing understanding of life in the Kingdom of the Heavens to every aspect of their life on earth.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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