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

Richard J. Foster

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
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
You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
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Making Prayer Time
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
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
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
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Holy Obedience Worship
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
Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion
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Discipline Ions Self
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come “underneath,” where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.
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Assuming Prayer Way
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
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
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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Holy Obedience Worship
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
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
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.
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Lord Speak Worship

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

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