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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.

Dallas Willard

When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
DALLAS WILLARD

Form Issues Management
What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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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
Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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Anand Thakur
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Anand Thakur
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Church Greatness Simplicity Struggle Talk
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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Anand Thakur
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
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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Anand Thakur
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
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Call Death Lose Time World
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Anand Thakur
Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Anand Thakur
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Alone Haste Loneliness Solitude
Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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Beginning Fulfillment Mindset Shame Subtle Talk
The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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Fact Injustice People Work
As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Anand Thakur
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Anand Thakur
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
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
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.

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