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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.

John Ortberg

As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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Anand Thakur
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Anand Thakur
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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Anand Thakur
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Anand Thakur
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Anand Thakur
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Anand Thakur
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Anand Thakur
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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Anand Thakur
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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Anand Thakur
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Anand Thakur
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Anand Thakur
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Anand Thakur
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Anand Thakur
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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Anand Thakur
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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Anand Thakur
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True

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