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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.

Dallas Willard

Keep eternity before the children.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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
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

Anand Thakur
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Anand Thakur
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Large Personal Relation Social Transformation World
We are becoming who we will be-forever.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Anand Thakur
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
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
DALLAS WILLARD

Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality

Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.

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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.

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