To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's. - Dallas Willard

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Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.

Dallas Willard

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

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The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.

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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

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We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

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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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We're not here to prove we're right; we're here to help people.

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