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The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is new attentiveness to…

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Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.
Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him.…
Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques…
In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is…
Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit…
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying,…
Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires,…
Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and…
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from…
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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Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul, — Nicolas Malebranche
Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value. — Peter Bart
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden… — Adam Zagajewski
Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that… — Stephen Grosz
The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is… — Richard J. Foster
Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of… — Martin Heidegger
Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right… — Sylvia Boorstein
At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we… — John W. Gardner
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to… — Diane Lane
Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness. — Mary Anne Radmacher
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound.… — Stephen Dobyns
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other… — Alice Miller

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