When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Anand Thakur
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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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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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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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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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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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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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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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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