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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Anand Thakur
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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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