You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.
RICHARD J. FOSTERAs 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.
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We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.
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reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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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.
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Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
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Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.
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What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.
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Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
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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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Simplicity is freedom.
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Prayer is simply saying “thank you, bless you, praise you.”
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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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Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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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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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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