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Darryl Friesen
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“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…!
— 3 hours, 34 min ago
And clearly I need to read more Kierkegaard…!
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Darryl Friesen
is on page 87 of 288
“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.”
— 4 hours, 29 min ago
Darryl Friesen
is on page 79 of 288
“‘You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free’ (John 8:32). Good feelings will not free us. Ecstatic experiences will not free us. Getting ‘high on Jesus’ will not free us. Without a knowledge of the truth, we will not be free.”
“It soon becomes obvious that study demands humility.… Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.”
— Jan 12, 2026 05:09AM
“It soon becomes obvious that study demands humility.… Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.”
Darryl Friesen
is on page 62 of 288
Not too much new info for me on fasting—unlike what Foster says is statistically the case within the Church, fasting is probably one of the disciplines I’m most familiar with. Guess that makes me an anomaly?! 🙃 A very encouraging chapter, with much in support of fasting as a regular practice that I would agree with, especially regarding our potentially selfish motivations to fast—so we can “bribe” God…
— Jan 10, 2026 12:59PM
Darryl Friesen
is on page 47 of 288
Chapter 3
“We are not trying to conjure up something in our imagination that is not so. Nor are we trying to manipulate God and tell him what to do. Quite the opposite. We are asking God to tell us what to do.… Our prayer is to be like a reflex action to God‘s prior initiative upon the heart.”
— Jan 08, 2026 05:05AM
“We are not trying to conjure up something in our imagination that is not so. Nor are we trying to manipulate God and tell him what to do. Quite the opposite. We are asking God to tell us what to do.… Our prayer is to be like a reflex action to God‘s prior initiative upon the heart.”
Darryl Friesen
is on page 40 of 288
Chapter 3
“Real prayer is something we learn.”
“Søren Kierkegaard once observed: ‘A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized that prayer is listening.’”
— Jan 07, 2026 05:17AM
“Real prayer is something we learn.”
“Søren Kierkegaard once observed: ‘A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized that prayer is listening.’”
Darryl Friesen
is on page 33 of 288
“To believe that God can sanctify and utilize the imagination is simply to take seriously the Christian idea of incarnation. God so accommodates, so enfleshes himself into our world that he uses the images we know and understand to teach us about the unseen world of which we know so little and which we find so difficult to understand.”
“Contemplative prayer is a way of life.”
So good!! 🤯❤️
— Jan 06, 2026 07:42AM
“Contemplative prayer is a way of life.”
So good!! 🤯❤️
Darryl Friesen
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Chapter 2
“Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have the message secondhand….Such an approach saves us from the need to change, for to be in the presence of God is to change….That is why meditation is so threatening to us. It boldly calls us to enter into the living presence of God for ourselves.”
— Jan 05, 2026 04:53PM
“Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have the message secondhand….Such an approach saves us from the need to change, for to be in the presence of God is to change….That is why meditation is so threatening to us. It boldly calls us to enter into the living presence of God for ourselves.”
Darryl Friesen
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Chapter 1
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
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 God so that he can transform us.
By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.
— Jan 04, 2026 07:29AM
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
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 God so that he can transform us.
By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.
Darryl Friesen
is starting
This morning, I read the preface, foreword, and introduction to the book, and am now even more wildly excited to get started! Ooooo, this is going to be good…
— Jan 03, 2026 05:00AM
