Simplicity is freedom.
RICHARD J. FOSTERThe 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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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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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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Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
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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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Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
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The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
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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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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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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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Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
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You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
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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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Prayer is – listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the “ear of our hearts.”
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As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.
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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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