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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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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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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