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It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.
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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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, Now what are we going to do about the darkness? It's gone!
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of
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When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.
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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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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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He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a God government in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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The relation of redemption and sanctification would be the ongoing relationship between the driver and God who is directing her. Now, if God isn't directing him, he may go wild and do all sorts of things criminal and crazy.
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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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Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand' (Matt 3:2, 4:17, 10:7). This is a call for us to reconsider how we have been approaching our life, in light of the fact that we now, in the presence of Jesus, have the option of living within the surrounding movements of God's eternal purposes, of taking our life into his life.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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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 spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.
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