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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

Dallas Willard

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Burden Choice Disappointment Failure Life Right
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
My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Choice God Life Myself Style
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Anand Thakur
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Anand Thakur
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Anand Thakur
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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Anand Thakur
The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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Anand Thakur
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Anand Thakur
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Angry Ego Embrace Person Wound
God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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Anand Thakur
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Attention Form God Spiritual
The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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Anand Thakur
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Anand Thakur

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