The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Anand Thakur
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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