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This book is coming to me at the perfect time! I’m enjoying it, and being challenged by it, so deeply.

“Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.”

“It is in solitude that we come to experience the ‘silence of God’ and so receive the inner silence that is the craving of our hearts.” Richard J. Foster/Catherine de Hueck Doherty

“Freedom from anxiety is characterized by three inner attitudes. If what we have we receive as a gift, and if what we have is to be cared for by God, and if what we have is available to others, then we will possess freedom from anxiety. This is the inward reality of simplicity…. The inner reality is not a reality until there is an outward expression.”

And clearly I need to read more Kierkegaard…!

“Of all the Disciplines simplicity is the most visible and therefore the most open to corruption.… The central point for the Discipline of simplicity is to seek the kingdom of God and the righteousness of his kingdom FIRST and then everything necessary will come in its proper order.… Focus upon the kingdom produces the inward reality, and without the inward reality we will degenerate into legalistic trivia.”