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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…

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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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But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional… — Richard J. Foster
I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom. — Tallulah Bankhead
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. — Richard Owen
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I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle. — Elizabeth Gilbert
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