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It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.

Richard J. Foster

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Grows Love Spiritual
Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects – and infects – every sphere of our living.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Doe Perfect Spheres
When 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.
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Excellent Life Problem Things
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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Evil Humanity Jesus
And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about “proper” praying, just talk to God.
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Ongoing Prayer Worry
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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Lord Speak Worship
The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Attitude Christian Spiritual
Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. Its just straight-out ego gratification – how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.
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Ego Names Pride
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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Crowds Noise Three
We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.
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Air Earth Toxic Waste
What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.
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Country Environmental Moving
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction Anything Rejects
Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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Falling Love Prayer Real
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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Doe Mean Opportunity
Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
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Empowering God Grace
..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately….Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

People Prayer Test

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