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I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.

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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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He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a God government in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
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The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would train his whole personality to depend upon the risen Christ as Christ trained Himself to depend upon the Father.
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as a way of co-labouring with God to accomplish good things and advancing his Kingdom purposes.
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What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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