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The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

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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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It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as a way of co-labouring with God to accomplish good things and advancing his Kingdom purposes.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.
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The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.
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Grace is not opposed to effort it's opposed to earning.
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Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright.
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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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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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I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.
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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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