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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.

Dallas Willard

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
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Anand Thakur
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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Anand Thakur
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Areas Confidence Life Ourselves Prayer Result Thinking
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
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
God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
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
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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

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