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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

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
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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Anand Thakur
We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Act Believe True
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
Keep eternity before the children.
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Anand Thakur
The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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
Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Forgiveness Grace Life
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
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Anand Thakur
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
We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Anand Thakur
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
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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Definition Human Love Thinking
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

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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