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Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

Richard J. Foster

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
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
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
Prayer is simply saying “thank you, bless you, praise you.”
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Bless Praise Prayer
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
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Discipline Ions Self
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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Doe Mean Opportunity
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
Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
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Divine Simplicity
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction Anything Rejects
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
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
You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.
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Discipline Helping Needs
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
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Age Satisfaction Spiritual
You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
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Making Prayer Time
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

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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