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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
Prove
Help
Helping
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People

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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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The relation of redemption and sanctification would be the ongoing relationship between the driver and God who is directing her. Now, if God isn't directing him, he may go wild and do all sorts of things criminal and crazy.
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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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Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.
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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.
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Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
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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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The most important thing in your life is not what you do it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education it's just a matter of which one you get.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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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 prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
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