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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.
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Jesus offers himself as God's doorway into the life that is truly life. Confidence in him leads us today, as in other times, to become his apprentices in eternal living. Those who come though me will be safe, he said. They will go in and out and find all they need. I have come into their world that they may have life, and life to the fullest
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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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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When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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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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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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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What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish
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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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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
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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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