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Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.

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Letting Go, Heart, Giving

Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? 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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Spiritual, Running, Distance

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Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit and truth.' It is kindled within us only when the Spirit of God touches our human spirit.

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Father, Heart, Reality

Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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

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Commitment, Discipline, Gains

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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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Self, Ions, Discipline

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Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you."

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Prayer, Praise, Bless

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In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.

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Spiritual, Joy, Obedience

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Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

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Thinking, Important, Hardest

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Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.

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Empowering, Grace, Grace Of God

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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, Soul, Siege

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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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People, Interesting, Hazards

Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.

Richard J. Foster

Jesus, Evil, Humanity

Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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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.

Richard J. Foster

Christian, Light, Resentment

Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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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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Prayer, Way, Assuming

Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.7, Harper Collins

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He is inviting you - and me - to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.

Richard J. Foster

Home, Heart, Arms

Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.1, Harper Collins

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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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Heart, Focus, Honor

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Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

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Children, Air, Average

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But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of God's love and to confess our needs openly before our brothers and sisters. The fear and pride that clings to us like barnacles cling to others also. In acts of mutual confession we release the power that heals. Our humanity is no longer denied, but transformed.

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Brother, Pride, People

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In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

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Spiritual, Determination, Honesty

Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.3, Harper Collins

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

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Love, God, Christian

Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about "proper" praying, just talk to God.

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Prayer, Worry, Ongoing

Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.12, Harper Collins

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Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest requests at times! Often we are grieved by the meanness and selfishness in their requests, but we would be all the more grieved if they never came to us even with their meanness and selfishness. We are simply glad that they do come--mixed motives and all.

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Jesus, Prayer, Children

Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.8, Harper Collins

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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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Prayer, People, Giving

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You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.

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Discipline, Needs, Helping

Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your feelings of helplessness and excessive dependence upon words to communicate. Try to find new ways to relate to tohers that are not dependent upon words. Enjoy, savor the day. Learn from it.

Richard J. Foster

Law, Feelings, Trying

Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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