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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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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess certain views as their own but apply their growing understanding of life in the Kingdom of the Heavens to every aspect of their life on earth.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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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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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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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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And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.
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The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.
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The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
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It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.
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We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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