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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…
- The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and…
- If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us…
- Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
- If worship does not change us it has not been worship.
- Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.
- Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere…
- We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us.…
- One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are so accustomed to relying upon words…
- Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been…
- The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this…
- Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.
- Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that…
- Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer.…
- The Bible is teh means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service. Secured…
- But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of God's…
- 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.…
- God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before…
- Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not sustain us; God…
- Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.
- Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great…
- You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without…
- 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,…
- ..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.
- Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous trust...They point us…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong