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.
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Anand Thakur
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.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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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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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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