What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Anand Thakur
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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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 harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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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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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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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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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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