The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Anand Thakur
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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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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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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