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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.
Dallas Willard
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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
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Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
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Grace is not opposed to effort it's opposed to earning.
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.
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When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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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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Jesus offers himself as God's doorway into the life that is truly life. Confidence in him leads us today, as in other times, to become his apprentices in eternal living. Those who come though me will be safe, he said. They will go in and out and find all they need. I have come into their world that they may have life, and life to the fullest
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Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.
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The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.
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Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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