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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.

Richard J. Foster

Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
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Empowering God Grace
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 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
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
Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
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Four Goal Years
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
Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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Emptiness Loneliness Solitude
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction Anything Rejects
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
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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Demand Stoicism Universe
Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
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Divine Simplicity
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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Doe Mean Opportunity
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
You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
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Making Prayer Time
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

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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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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