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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.

John Ortberg

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Anand Thakur
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Anand Thakur
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
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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Difference Friendship World
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Anand Thakur
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Anand Thakur
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
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
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
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
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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Anand Thakur
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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God Himself Known Mysterious
The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True

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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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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