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Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

Richard J. Foster

You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Making Prayer Time
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
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
Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.
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Action Daily Life Prayer
He is inviting you – and me – to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.
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Arms Heart Home
..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
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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Doe Mean Opportunity
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
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
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Age Satisfaction Spiritual
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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Excellent Life Problem Things
Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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Falling Love Prayer Real
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Holy Obedience Worship
Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Integrity Life Live Reality
Prayer is – listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the “ear of our hearts.”
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Heart Prayer Voice
Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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Emptiness Loneliness Solitude
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.
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Hazards Interesting People

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