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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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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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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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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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