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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

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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
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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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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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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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.
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God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.
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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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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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