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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

Simplicity is freedom.
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Freedom Happen Simplicity
Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.
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Action Daily Life Prayer
You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
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Making Prayer Time
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.
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Doe Perfect Spheres
He is inviting you – and me – to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.
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Arms Heart Home
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 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
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction Anything Rejects
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
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
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
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.
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Passion Prayer Real
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
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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Demand Stoicism Universe
Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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Falling Love Prayer Real
Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
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Divine Simplicity

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