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

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