The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Anand Thakur
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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