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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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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Going
Obey
Transformation
Unless
Happen
Jesus
Spiritual
Christ
Likeness
Happens
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, Now what are we going to do about the darkness? It's gone!
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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In thus sending out his trainees, [Jesus] set afoot a perpetual world revolution: one that is still in process and will continue until God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven.... He has chosen to accomplish this with and, in part, through his students.
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The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
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Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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