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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

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
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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Life Modern Needs Opiates
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction Anything Rejects
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
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
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
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
Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
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Divine Simplicity
Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
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Empowering God Grace
Simplicity is freedom.
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Freedom Happen Simplicity
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
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
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
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
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
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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Demand Stoicism Universe

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