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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.

Dallas Willard

We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Conversation Engagement God Life People Practice Relationship Spiritual
Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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Definition Human Love Thinking
It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Anand Thakur
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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Accomplishment Achievement God Life Person Yourself
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Believe Live Opposite Yourself
The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Anand Thakur
What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Anand Thakur
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Burden Choice Disappointment Failure Life Right
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Anand Thakur
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Anand Thakur
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Anand Thakur
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Anand Thakur
The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Different Driver Heart Ignition Machine Ourselves Spirit

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