Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Anand Thakur
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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