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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.

Dallas Willard

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Anand Thakur
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
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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
God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
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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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
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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Anand Thakur
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Anand Thakur
As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Attitude Learning Live Mindset Open Right
It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
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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Anand Thakur
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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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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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