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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.

Richard J. Foster

It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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Demand Stoicism Universe
The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.
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Doe Firsts Kingdoms
Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
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Grows Love Spiritual
Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.
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Order People Solitude
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Holy Obedience Worship
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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Focus Heart Honor
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
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Intelligent Numbers People
Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
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Empowering God Grace
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come “underneath,” where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.
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Assuming Prayer Way
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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Discipline Dream Spiritual
The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.
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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
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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Fasting Food Mouth Sustain
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction Anything Rejects
Simplicity is freedom.
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Freedom Happen Simplicity
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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People Reality Sick

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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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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