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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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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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God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being right, we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
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The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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 transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to 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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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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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 humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.
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Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.
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A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.
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