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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
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Greatest
Church
Christian
Today
Pitching
Message
Lows
Messages
Danger

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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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What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.
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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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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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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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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Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
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If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.
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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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