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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

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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
Powerful
Ideas
Never
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Truly
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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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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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 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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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would train his whole personality to depend upon the risen Christ as Christ trained Himself to depend upon the Father.
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What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish
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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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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
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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 are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.
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Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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