Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Anand Thakur
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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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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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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