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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
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Bible
Cannot
Soul
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.
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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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Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.
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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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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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The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
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Grace is not opposed to effort it's opposed to earning.
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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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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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We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.
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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 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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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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