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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.

Dallas Willard

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Alone Haste Loneliness Solitude
“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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Anand Thakur
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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Answer Believe Right True
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Clever God Thinking Way
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Anand Thakur
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Church Decision Fact God Problem
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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Anand Thakur
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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Areas Confidence Life Ourselves Prayer Result Thinking
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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Anand Thakur
The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Anand Thakur
The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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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
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Anand Thakur
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Anand Thakur
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

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