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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

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
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
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Anand Thakur
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Believe Live Opposite Yourself
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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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 truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Anand Thakur
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Anand Thakur
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Anand Thakur
I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Anand Thakur
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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
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
The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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Anand Thakur
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Church Decision Fact God Problem
Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Easy Myself Obedience Way
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
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Character Children Final
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Anand Thakur
We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Attention Form God Spiritual
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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Anand Thakur
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right

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