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Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

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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
Extreme
Depression
Extremes
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Clinical

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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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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 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 first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
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The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
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The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
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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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Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You need to seek out others in your community who are pursuing the renovation of the heart.
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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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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
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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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