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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

Dallas Willard

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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
A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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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
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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Care Cultivation Heart Help Stand Talk Transformation Willing
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Conversation Engagement God Life People Practice Relationship Spiritual
When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
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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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
It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Follow God Love Responsibility Rule Satisfaction Sin Start
That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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“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
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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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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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

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