Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
RICHARD J. FOSTERWhat 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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Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
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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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Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
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Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.
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Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
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Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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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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The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.
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Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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Simplicity is freedom.
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Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.
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Prayer is – listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the “ear of our hearts.”
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Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.
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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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