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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of
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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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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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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a God government in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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