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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

Dallas Willard

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Anand Thakur
The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Different Driver Heart Ignition Machine Ourselves Spirit
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
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
It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
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
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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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
As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Basis Care Nation Understand
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Anand Thakur
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
We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right

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