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Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects – and infects – every sphere of our living.

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
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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Doe Mean Opportunity
Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
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Grows Love Spiritual
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
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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Determination Honesty Spiritual
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
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
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 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
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
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
Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
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Empowering God Grace
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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Crowds Noise Three
..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
Prayer is – listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the “ear of our hearts.”
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Heart Prayer Voice
Pride 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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Ego Names Pride

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects – and infects – every sphere of our living.

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