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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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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 true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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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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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort it's opposed to earning.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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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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When we think of taking Christ into the workplace or keeping Christ in the home, we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The specialness of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian-especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast lane on the straight and narrow way. He stands on the pages of the New Testament as the first level of basic transportation in the kingdom of God.
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It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education it's just a matter of which one you get.
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Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
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