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

Richard J. Foster

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
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
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
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
Prayer is – listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the “ear of our hearts.”
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Heart Prayer Voice
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
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
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Age Satisfaction Spiritual
Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
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Empowering God Grace
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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Demand Stoicism Universe
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
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
Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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Emptiness Loneliness Solitude
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
You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
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Making Prayer Time
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
Simplicity is freedom.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Freedom Happen Simplicity

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

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