Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Anand Thakur
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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