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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

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Follow God Love Responsibility Rule Satisfaction Sin Start
Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Forgiveness Grace Life
Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Answer Believe Right True
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Clever God Thinking Way
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 first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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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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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
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
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Believe Live Opposite Yourself

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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