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We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

Richard J. Foster

Prayer is simply saying “thank you, bless you, praise you.”
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Bless Praise Prayer
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
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
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Age Satisfaction Spiritual
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
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
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction Anything Rejects
..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
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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Doe Mean Opportunity
Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
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Integrity Life Live Reality
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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Discipline Ions Self
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
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
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
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.
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Hazards Interesting People
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
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

We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

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