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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
Darkness
Room
Rooms
Gone
Comes
Light
Going

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When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Grace is not opposed to effort it's opposed to earning.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish
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Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.
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The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.
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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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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.
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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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