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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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Deed
Redemption
Righteous
Deeds

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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education it's just a matter of which one you get.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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The relation of redemption and sanctification would be the ongoing relationship between the driver and God who is directing her. Now, if God isn't directing him, he may go wild and do all sorts of things criminal and crazy.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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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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You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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