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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

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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
Servants
Servant
Masters
Feelings
Good
Disastrous

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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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We're not here to prove we're right we're here to help people.
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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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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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History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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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 prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
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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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In thus sending out his trainees, [Jesus] set afoot a perpetual world revolution: one that is still in process and will continue until God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven.... He has chosen to accomplish this with and, in part, through his students.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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