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Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

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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
Rarely
Transformation
Accidents
Projects
Succeed
Personal
Imposition
Drift
Accident

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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education it's just a matter of which one you get.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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