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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.

Dallas Willard

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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Church Greatness Simplicity Struggle Talk
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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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Anand Thakur
It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Follow God Love Responsibility Rule Satisfaction Sin Start
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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Answer Believe Right True
One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Hard People Right World
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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Anand Thakur
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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Anand Thakur
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 are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
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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Care Cultivation Heart Help Stand Talk Transformation Willing
The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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Anand Thakur
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Anand Thakur
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
Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Anand Thakur
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Anand Thakur
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality
The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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Anand Thakur
Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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Anand Thakur
God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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Anand Thakur
We are becoming who we will be-forever.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur

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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