Simplicity is freedom.
RICHARD J. FOSTERIf 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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Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion
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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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Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
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Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God’s great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.
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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 must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.
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The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.
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Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
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Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
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Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.
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As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.
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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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Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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