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Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.

And so the test of whether or not we have really gotten the point of the Bible would then be the quality of love that we show.

The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.

Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.

Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification.

Through prayer and study, worship and service, we regularly digest God's word into the core of our being, where it feeds and transforms us. Continue

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

Remember that the key to the Discipline of study is not reading many books, but experiencing what we do read.

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.

If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.

Restriction often enhances clarity.

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 worship.

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

Some have exalted religious fasting beyond all Scripture and reason; and others have utterly disregarded it. - JOHN WESLEY

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

Reading the Bible for spiritual transformation is not a one-sided endeavor: it is a dialogue of human spirit and Holy Spirit.

It is only because of your love, only your love, that the poor will forgive you the bread you give them.

If worship does not change us it has not been worship.

In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.

Nothing must come before the kingdom of God, including the desire for a simple life-style.

Your prayer must be turned inwards, not towards a God of Heaven nor towards a God far off, but towards God who is closer to you than you are aware.

It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer.

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

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 bitter.

Frequently we hold on so tightly to the good that we do know that we cannot receive the greater good that we do not know.

Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals

You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war (James 4:1, 2).

Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

For our sins, He suffered beneath the burden of that unanswered prayer."1 Here

He true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately ... Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace.

Extremes of wealth and poverty are a scandal to Christian brotherhood. They must not be allowed.

Reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you."

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.

Goals are discovered, not made.

God, what is man's best gift to mankind? To be beautiful of soul and then let people see into your soul.

Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions (Luke 12:15).

Spiritual Disciplines involve doing what we can do to receive from God the power to do what we cannot.

If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.

In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer.

We read every verse of Scripture lovingly and attentively, because every verse is a potential summons from God.

The goal of work is not to gain wealth and possessions, but to serve the common good and bring glory to God.

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.

In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.

It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.

Submission reaches the end of its tether when it becomes destructive.

To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.

Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

To be effective pray-ers, we need to be effective lovers.

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

Our prayer is to be like a reflex action to God's prior initiative upon the heart.

Will not break a bruised reed, or quench a smoldering wick (Isa. 423; Matt. 12:20).

The fruit of the Spirit is the outward evidence of the inward reality of a heart "abiding" in Christ.

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

Prayer is - a means of uniting us unto Himself.

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

We would do well to come to the Bible with these words ringing in our ears: 'You have heard it said ... but I say to you ...

Simplicity is freedom.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.

The moment we feel we can succeed and attain victory over sin by the strength of our will alone is the moment we are worshiping the will.

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 sustains us.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

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 to prayer.

Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

An intelligent, humble, careful, intensive, straight forward reading of the Bible will direct us into Life in the Kingdom of God.

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

We simply cannot consider the earth apart from Christ's footsteps imprinted upon it.

Willpower will never succeed in dealing with the deeply ingrained habits of sin. Emmet

Little children, love one another.

PRAYER IS THE serious business of the Church, the first and best business it renders for the world.

A. W. Tozer says, "The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him."1