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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.

Dallas Willard

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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Anand Thakur
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Anand Thakur
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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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
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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“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
Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Forgiveness Grace Life
We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Basis Care Nation Understand
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Anand Thakur
It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Follow God Love Responsibility Rule Satisfaction Sin Start
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Conversation Engagement God Life People Practice Relationship Spiritual
The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Large Personal Relation Social Transformation World
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management

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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