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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
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Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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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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Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.
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Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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