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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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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Freedom
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
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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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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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