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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.

Richard J. Foster

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
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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Evil Humanity Jesus
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
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
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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Order People Solitude
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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Discipline Helping Needs
Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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Emptiness Loneliness Solitude
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
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
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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Demand Stoicism Universe
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
The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Discipline Dream Spiritual
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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Passion Prayer Real
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Holy Obedience Worship
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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Doe Mean Opportunity
Simplicity is freedom.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Freedom Happen Simplicity

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