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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

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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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Redemption
Righteous
Deeds
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Keep eternity before the children.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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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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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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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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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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It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as a way of co-labouring with God to accomplish good things and advancing his Kingdom purposes.
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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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
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Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.
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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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