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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

Dallas Willard

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!
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Character Children Final
In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Anand Thakur
We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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Anand Thakur
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
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Anand Thakur
Keep eternity before the children.
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Anand Thakur
We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right
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
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Burden Choice Disappointment Failure Life Right

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