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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

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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
Natural
Live
Habitat
Kingdom
Kingdoms
Built

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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.
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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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