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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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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Learning
Faith
Jesus
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Ideas
Come
Apprentice
Isolated
Totally

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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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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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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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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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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
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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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We're not here to prove we're right we're here to help people.
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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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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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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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