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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.

Dallas Willard

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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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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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
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
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Anand Thakur
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
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Large Personal Relation Social Transformation World
We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right
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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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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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.
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Answer Believe Right True
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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