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It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.

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Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

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Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.

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Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

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Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.

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Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

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It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.

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Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals

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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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Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

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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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In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer.

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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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Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

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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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Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

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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

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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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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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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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When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

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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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In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.

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To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.

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Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.

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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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Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not sustain us; God sustains us.

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The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.

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Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

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It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.

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