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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.

Dallas Willard

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Anand Thakur
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
Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
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
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
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
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
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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
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 most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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Anand Thakur
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur

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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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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