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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, Now what are we going to do about the darkness? It's gone!

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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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Room
Rooms
Gone

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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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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of
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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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Jesus offers himself as God's doorway into the life that is truly life. Confidence in him leads us today, as in other times, to become his apprentices in eternal living. Those who come though me will be safe, he said. They will go in and out and find all they need. I have come into their world that they may have life, and life to the fullest
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The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
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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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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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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.
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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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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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It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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