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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

Dallas Willard

Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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Anand Thakur
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Character Children Final
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
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
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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Anand Thakur
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
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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Anand Thakur
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
If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Anand Thakur
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Anand Thakur
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Basis Care Nation Understand
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Anand Thakur
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Anand Thakur
In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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Anand Thakur
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

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