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Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

Richard J. Foster

reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction Anything Rejects
Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.
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Attachment Insane Needs
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
Simplicity is freedom.
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Freedom Happen Simplicity
In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.
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Determination Honesty Spiritual
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Holy Obedience Worship
..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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People Prayer Test
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
You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
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Making Prayer Time
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
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
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
Prayer is simply saying “thank you, bless you, praise you.”
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Bless Praise Prayer
Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
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Divine Simplicity
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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Holy Obedience Worship
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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Doe Mean Opportunity

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