When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Anand Thakur
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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