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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
Room
Rooms
Gone
Comes
Light
Going
Darkness

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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.
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I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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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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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