It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
RICHARD J. FOSTERFour times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
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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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Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.
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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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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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Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
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Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
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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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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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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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Prayer is simply saying “thank you, bless you, praise you.”
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Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God’s great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.
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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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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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Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
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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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