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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.

Dallas Willard

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Hungry Morning People Rise
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Anand Thakur
“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
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
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Anand Thakur
The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Character Form God Production
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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Anand Thakur
Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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Anand Thakur
The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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Anand Thakur
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Anand Thakur

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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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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