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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.

Dallas Willard

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
We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Act Believe True
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
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
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
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Anand Thakur
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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
It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
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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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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
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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