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Persons Quotes by Dallas Willard

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Dallas Willard approaches the topic of humanity with a contemplative tone that invites deeper thought. Across seventeen brief statements, he blends spiritual insight with practical observations, giving readers a modest yet meaningful collection of his perspective.

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No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.

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In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset…

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God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer…

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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will…

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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…

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The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.

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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…

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The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very…

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If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not…

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We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that…

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We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often…

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You have been given a ministry and your ministry is not your job and your job and your ministry are two things…

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What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we…

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We don't save our soul and leave our emotions and our feelings and our body and all the rest of it out.…

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What Paul is clearly saying is that if anyone is worthy of being saved, they will be saved. At that point many…

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"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

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In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear…

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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to…

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“The Spirit makes Christ present to us and draws us toward his likeness. It is as we thus behold the “glory of the Lord”…

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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.

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We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to…

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We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

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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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My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for…

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