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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.

Dallas Willard

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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
Able
Human
Humans
Every
Believe
Merited
Depraved
Sufficiently
Heaven

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Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, Now what are we going to do about the darkness? It's gone!
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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When we think of taking Christ into the workplace or keeping Christ in the home, we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The specialness of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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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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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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