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You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
Dallas Willard
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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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The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.
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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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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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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 truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
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Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.
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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Grace is not opposed to effort it's opposed to earning.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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