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Dallas Willard

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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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
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
The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Anand Thakur
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
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Accomplishment Achievement God Life Person Yourself
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
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
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Anand Thakur
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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
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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Character Form God Production
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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Anand Thakur

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