To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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