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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.

Dallas Willard

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
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality
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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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Anand Thakur
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Choice God Life Myself Style
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
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Anand Thakur
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Anand Thakur
That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Anand Thakur
The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Anand Thakur
Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Education Form Oneself Spiritual
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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Anand Thakur

That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.

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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.

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