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Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.

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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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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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The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
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Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would train his whole personality to depend upon the risen Christ as Christ trained Himself to depend upon the Father.
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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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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being right, we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.
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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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We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
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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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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 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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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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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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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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