We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Anand Thakur
We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
DALLAS WILLARD
If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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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 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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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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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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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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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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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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