It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Anand Thakur
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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