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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

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Anand Thakur
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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Answer Believe Right True
It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Church Greatness Simplicity Struggle Talk
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Anand Thakur
In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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Anand Thakur
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Anand Thakur
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
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Angry Ego Embrace Person Wound
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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
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
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Anand Thakur
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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Anand Thakur
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
Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Abundance Obedience One Liner
The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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Anand Thakur
It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
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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Anand Thakur
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
When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Call Death Lose Time World
Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Anand Thakur
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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

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