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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.

Dallas Willard

God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
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
The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Anand Thakur
As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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
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
In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Anand Thakur
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Burden Choice Disappointment Failure Life Right
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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Anand Thakur
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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Beginning Fulfillment Mindset Shame Subtle Talk
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Anand Thakur
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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