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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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The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on…
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It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
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Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and…
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
— Socrates
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life…
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It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
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