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Prayer is simply saying “thank you, bless you, praise you.”

Richard J. Foster

Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Divine Simplicity
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
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
..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
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
Prayer is – listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the “ear of our hearts.”
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Heart Prayer Voice
Prayer is simply saying “thank you, bless you, praise you.”
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Bless Praise Prayer
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
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Holy Obedience Worship
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction Anything Rejects
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
Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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Falling Love Prayer Real
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
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
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

Prayer is simply saying “thank you, bless you, praise you.”

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