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Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

Richard J. Foster

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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Silence Solitude Two
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
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
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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Demand Stoicism Universe
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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Focus Heart Honor
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction Anything Rejects
You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
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Making Prayer Time
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
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
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Holy Obedience Worship
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
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
Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not sustain us; God sustains us.
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Fasting Food Mouth Sustain
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
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
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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Doe Perfect Spheres

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

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