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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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Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.
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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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Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the best possible liturgy, but we have not worshiped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit.
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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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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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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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Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.
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Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. 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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Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.
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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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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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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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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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The Spiritual Disciplines are things that we do. We must never lose sight of this fact. It is one thing to talk piously about 'the solitude of the heart,' but if that does not somehow work its way into our experience, then we have missed the point of the Disciplines. We are dealing with actions, not merely states of mind.
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Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.
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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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Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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Richard Foster
Born:
1942
(age 82)
Bio:
Richard James Foster is a Christian theologian and author in the Quaker tradition. His writings speak to a broad Christian audience.
Known for:
Celebration of discipline (1978)
Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition (2002)
Freedom of simplicity (1981)
Money, Sex and Power (1985)
Meditative Prayer (1983)
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