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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

Dallas Willard

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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Anand Thakur
You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Attention Form God Spiritual
Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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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Basis Care Nation Understand
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
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
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Clever God Thinking Way
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Anand Thakur
I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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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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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
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
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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Hungry Morning People Rise
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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Definition Human Love Thinking
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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
Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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Anand Thakur

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

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