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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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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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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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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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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