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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
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Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
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I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.
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Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.
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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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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.
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