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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.

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
Disappointment
Crushing
Life
Disappointments
Endless
Burdens
Burden
Resolved
Caught
Toil
Choose
Failures
Problems
Righteousness
Toils
Problem
Crush
Depart
Never

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