In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.
RICHARD J. FOSTERFreedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
More Richard J. Foster Quotes
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Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
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The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
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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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Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
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When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.
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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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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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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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reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
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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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Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.
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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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Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
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