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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

God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
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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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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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Care Cultivation Heart Help Stand Talk Transformation Willing
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Character Form God Production
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
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
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
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Conversation Engagement God Life People Practice Relationship Spiritual
As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
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
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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