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We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

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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
Spiritually
Focusing
Transformed

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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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 true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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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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You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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 effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
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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 we think of taking Christ into the workplace or keeping Christ in the home, we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The specialness of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.
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The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.
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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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Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright.
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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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