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The most important thing in your life is not what you do it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

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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
Eternity
Become
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Important
Thing
Life

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Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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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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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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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.
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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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If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not go away, the questions of, What kind of person am I becoming? and What is my role in that? and so on.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.
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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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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.
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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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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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The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance
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A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.
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It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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