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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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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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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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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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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.
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We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth
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The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.
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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 humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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