Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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Anand Thakur
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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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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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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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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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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