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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.

Dallas Willard

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
“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
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
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
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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Anand Thakur
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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Fact Injustice People Work
Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Easy Myself Obedience Way
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
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Alone Haste Loneliness Solitude
When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Call Death Lose Time World
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
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Angry Ego Embrace Person Wound
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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Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
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
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Anand Thakur
If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Character Form God Production

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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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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