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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

He is inviting you – and me – to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.
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Arms Heart Home
Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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Falling Love Prayer Real
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
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
Simplicity is freedom.
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Freedom Happen Simplicity
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
Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
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Divine Simplicity
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
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction Anything Rejects
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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Demand Stoicism Universe
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
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
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
We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.
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People Reality Sick
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

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