reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
RICHARD J. FOSTERWhen we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.
More Richard J. Foster Quotes
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Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
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We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.
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Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.
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You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.
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Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in “muchness” and “manyness,” he will rest satisfied.
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If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.
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In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.
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Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not sustain us; God sustains us.
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Simplicity is freedom.
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..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately….Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.
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Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
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We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.
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