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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

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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
Creation
Values
Play
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Value

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What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union with God himself, who created and ultimately controls all other forces.
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It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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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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Grace is not opposed to effort it's opposed to earning.
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The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.
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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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Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.
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Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.
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The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
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There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.
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A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess certain views as their own but apply their growing understanding of life in the Kingdom of the Heavens to every aspect of their life on earth.
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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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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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It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as a way of co-labouring with God to accomplish good things and advancing his Kingdom purposes.
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