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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…
- Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.
- The needed change within us is God's work, not ours. The demand is for an inside job, and only God can work from the inside.…
- In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.
- A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground,…
- If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple…
- I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative…
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