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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.

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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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Our passion is our strength. — Billie Joe Armstrong
We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress… — Robert Redford
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are… — Bell Hooks
Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and,… — William E. Simon
Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that… — Mary Wortley Montagu
But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework… — John W. Gardner
We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with… — Jack White
The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path… — Peter F. Hamilton
Wherever there is sincerity & talent, people do recognize them. It may take some time but we should have some patience and… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided… — Carl Sagan
Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret… — Peter Abelard
Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a… — Karen Kain

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