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Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.
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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.…
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Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques…
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In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is…
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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…
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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,…
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Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires,…
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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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The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and…
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God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
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As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from…
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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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It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is…
— Dalai Lama
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...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of…
— Robert Kennedy
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A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For the United States, supporting international development is more than just an expression of our compassion. It is a vital investment in…
— Condoleezza Rice
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Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship,…
— Marc Bekoff
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Our compassion is the fruit of our spiritual lives; it actually arises spontaneously when formed by intention in our spiritual practice. Love…
— Wayne Teasdale
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I believe God loves the world through us - through you and through me. We use Mother Teresa's name; it is only…
— Mother Teresa
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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
— Robert Kennedy
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We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for…
— Carl Sagan
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Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern…
— Desmond Tutu
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Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
— Sharon Salzberg
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I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to…
— Elizabeth Taylor
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