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Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.
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Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.
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Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
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Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
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One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are so accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. If we are silent, who will take control? God will take control, but we will never let him take control until we trust him. Silence is intimately related to trust.
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Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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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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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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The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture.
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Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.
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Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.
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Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the ear of our hearts.
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When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?
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Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. God celebrates our feeble expressions of gratitude.
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God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
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Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.
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Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different
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Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask the moral questions.
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Prayer is simply saying thank you, bless you, praise you.
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The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without any regard to stewardship and to spew out our deadly wastes over land, sea, and air, we may well be drawing down the final curtain upon ourselves.
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