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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
Kingdom
Kingdoms
Built
Natural
Live
Habitat

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The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
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Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would train his whole personality to depend upon the risen Christ as Christ trained Himself to depend upon the Father.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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