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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.

Dallas Willard

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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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
The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Anand Thakur
God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
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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Anand Thakur
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
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Anand Thakur
We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People 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
“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
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Anand Thakur
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Anand Thakur
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
A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Care Cultivation Heart Help Stand Talk Transformation Willing
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Anand Thakur

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