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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Anand Thakur
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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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify 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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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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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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