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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. Foster

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
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Integrity Life Live Reality
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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Country Environmental Moving
We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.
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Air Earth Toxic Waste
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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Discipline Ions Self
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
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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People Reality Sick
Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.
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Attachment Insane Needs
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Holy Obedience Worship
..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
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
Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
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Four Goal Years
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. FOSTER

Discipline Helping Needs
We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.
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Silence Solitude Two
If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.
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Life Simple Things Thinking
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 desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
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Intelligent Numbers People

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.

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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.

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