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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

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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
Cannot
Live
Believe
Life
Profess
Opposite
Opposites
Inspirational

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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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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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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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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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The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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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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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.
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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Grace is not opposed to effort it's opposed to earning.
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God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being right, we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.
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God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.
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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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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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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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The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.
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