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Richard J. Foster Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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



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Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.



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