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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.

Richard J. Foster

Simplicity is freedom.
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Freedom Happen Simplicity
Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
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Empowering God Grace
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
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.
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Discipline Dream Spiritual
We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.
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Air Earth Toxic Waste
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
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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Ongoing Prayer Worry
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
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
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
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
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
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Intelligent Numbers People
Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
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Divine Simplicity
We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.
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Silence Solitude Two
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

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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