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Quote by Dallas Willard

“It's a wonderful thing to do an inductive study with our concordance.”

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Dallas Willard was an American philosopher known for his contributions to practical theology and moral philosophy. His works explored faith, moral life, and spiritual practice, having a profound impact on contemporary Christian philosophy. more

“We don't save our soul and leave our emotions and our feelings and our body and all the rest of it out. That's just a way of talking that emphasizes the soul is so fundamental that we can, in some cases, treat it as the whole person because it actually is the thing that integrates all of these aspects of the self and makes them work together. Now, I don't think we can find a passage in the Bible that says that. We have to read and study how it addresses the soul, and we then see that it is the deepest, most vital part of the human self.”

“It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.”

Heart Important Soul Self Spirit Executives

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

Persons Soul Spirit Direct Including

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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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“The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul.”

Soul Law Perfect Lord Restoring

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“The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.”

Soul Law Order

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“I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.”

Soul Definitions

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“The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people who want help. It's primarily a book for pastors. They're the ones that can use it in a way so that it actually achieves its purpose.”

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“I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.”

Soul Would Be Computer Fuel Devices Engines Brake Coordinates Injection Smog Computer Systems

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