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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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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
People
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Relations
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Identity
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Others

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The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union with God himself, who created and ultimately controls all other forces.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.
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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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Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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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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The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.
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