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Simplicity is freedom.
Goals are discovered, not made.
Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.
Prayer is - a means of uniting us unto Himself.
If worship does not change us it has not been worship.
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you."
Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.
Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important
In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.
Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer.
Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.
Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.
In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.
Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace.
It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.
Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."
Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.
We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.
Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.
Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.
In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer.
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.
Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.
Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion
The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.
If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.
Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.
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.
..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.
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.
Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.
In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.