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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
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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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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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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
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Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.
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We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.
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Jesus offers himself as God's doorway into the life that is truly life. Confidence in him leads us today, as in other times, to become his apprentices in eternal living. Those who come though me will be safe, he said. They will go in and out and find all they need. I have come into their world that they may have life, and life to the fullest
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul.
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