Prayer is simply saying “thank you, bless you, praise you.”
RICHARD J. FOSTERPride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. Its just straight-out ego gratification – how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.
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Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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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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..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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reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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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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Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in “muchness” and “manyness,” he will rest satisfied.
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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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Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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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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And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about “proper” praying, just talk to God.
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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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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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Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
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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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