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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

Dallas Willard

Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
DALLAS WILLARD

People Power Trust
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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Anand Thakur
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Anand Thakur
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Areas Confidence Life Ourselves Prayer Result Thinking
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
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Anand Thakur
My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Choice God Life Myself Style
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Alone Haste Loneliness Solitude
The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Different Driver Heart Ignition Machine Ourselves Spirit
The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Anand Thakur
“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
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
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
We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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Fact Injustice People Work
Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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Anand Thakur
When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

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