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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.

Richard J. Foster

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
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
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
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
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
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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Doe Mean Opportunity
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
Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
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Divine Simplicity
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
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
If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.
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Life Simple Things Thinking
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
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
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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Determination Honesty Spiritual
The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.
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Discipline Dream Spiritual

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