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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
Ones
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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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It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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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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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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We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth
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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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's opposed to earning.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.
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The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.
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I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.
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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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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.
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