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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.

Richard J. Foster

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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Holy Obedience Worship
Prayer is – listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the “ear of our hearts.”
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Heart Prayer Voice
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
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Holy Obedience Worship
Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Emptiness Loneliness Solitude
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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Ongoing Prayer Worry
Simplicity is freedom.
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Freedom Happen Simplicity
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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Assuming Prayer Way
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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Demand Stoicism Universe
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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Life Modern Needs Opiates
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
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
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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Life Simple Things Thinking
Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God’s thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Passion Prayer Real
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
Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Empowering God Grace

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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