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May God give you - and me- the courage, the wisdom, the strength always to hold the kingdom of God as the number one priority of our lives. To do so is to live in simplicity.

Richard J. Foster

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The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
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God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.
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If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.
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In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.
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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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