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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
Messages
Danger
Greatest
Church
Christian
Today
Pitching
Message
Lows

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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.
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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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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 greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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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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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period.
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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 sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.
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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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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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