Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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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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!
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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