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Keep eternity before the children.

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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
Keep
Children

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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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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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Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'
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The relation of redemption and sanctification would be the ongoing relationship between the driver and God who is directing her. Now, if God isn't directing him, he may go wild and do all sorts of things criminal and crazy.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish
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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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Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You need to seek out others in your community who are pursuing the renovation of the heart.
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We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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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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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.
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