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The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

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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
Disciplines
Righteousness
Discipline
Wisdom
Spiritual

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Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.
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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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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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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.
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No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21) how to possess without, like the rich young ruler, being possessed (Mark 10:22) how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance
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History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.
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Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.
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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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