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Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

Richard J. Foster

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
Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.
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Order People Solitude
Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in “muchness” and “manyness,” he will rest satisfied.
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Crowds Noise Three
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Holy Obedience Worship
Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God’s great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.
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Evil Humanity Jesus
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
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
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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Attitude Christian Spiritual
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
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
You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
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Making Prayer Time
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
Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
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Grows Love Spiritual
Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Attachment Insane Needs
Prayer is simply saying “thank you, bless you, praise you.”
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Bless Praise Prayer
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

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