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Simplicity is freedom.

Richard J. Foster

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Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.
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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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If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.
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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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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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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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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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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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Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.
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The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.
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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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If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.
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Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.
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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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Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come underneath, where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.
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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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Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.
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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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Prayer is simply saying thank you, bless you, praise you.
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Goals are discovered, not made.
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