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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.

Dallas Willard

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
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
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Attitude Learning Live Mindset Open Right
We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Act Believe True
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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
It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Anand Thakur
The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Follow God Love Responsibility Rule Satisfaction Sin Start
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Anand Thakur
Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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