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Dallas Willard

It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Church Greatness Simplicity Struggle Talk
God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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Anand Thakur
In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
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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Anand Thakur
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Anand Thakur
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
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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
Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Easy Myself Obedience Way
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Attitude Learning Live Mindset Open Right
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
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
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Character Children Final
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Anand Thakur
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Anand Thakur
There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
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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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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Anand Thakur
The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Anand Thakur
It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
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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Anand Thakur
Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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Anand Thakur
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
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 don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Hard People Right World
“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

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