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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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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is…
— Niels Bohr
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Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
— Dwight L. Moody
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Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black…
— Wilferd Peterson
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Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the…
— Marlo Morgan
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We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
— Stephen Covey
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The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we…
— Eknath Easwaran
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We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.
— Unknown Author
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