Avoiding Quote by Dallas Willard

“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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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 do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all…

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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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