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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

Dallas Willard

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
Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
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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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Large Personal Relation Social Transformation World
Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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
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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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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“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
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management

If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

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