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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

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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
Fuel
Saint
Grace
True
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Takeoff
Burns

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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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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not go away, the questions of, What kind of person am I becoming? and What is my role in that? and so on.
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The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You need to seek out others in your community who are pursuing the renovation of the heart.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
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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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