I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Anand Thakur
I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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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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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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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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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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