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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
Approximate author period: c. 1974 AD · modern
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- Dallas Willard
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- Approximate author period: c. 1974 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Dallas Willard: life dates 1935 to 2013. Wikidata Q1158014, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1158014 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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