The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
RICHARD J. FOSTERPrayer is simply saying “thank you, bless you, praise you.”
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reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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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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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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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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Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Prayer is – listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the “ear of our hearts.”
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We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.
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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.
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You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
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Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
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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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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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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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