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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

Dallas Willard

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
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
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Anand Thakur
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
A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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Anand Thakur
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Anand Thakur
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
It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Anand Thakur
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
Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Anand Thakur
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
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Hungry Morning People Rise
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Anand Thakur
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Anand Thakur
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Accomplishment Achievement God Life Person Yourself
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
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Anand Thakur
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
Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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Anand Thakur
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Anand Thakur
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
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

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