God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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Anand Thakur
God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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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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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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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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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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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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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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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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 primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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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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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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