Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Anand Thakur
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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 possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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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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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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