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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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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
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Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.
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The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.
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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a God government in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).
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And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.
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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 transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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