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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
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The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
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Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
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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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Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not go away, the questions of, What kind of person am I becoming? and What is my role in that? and so on.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.
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Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
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You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period.
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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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