Richard J. Foster Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.
Some have exalted religious fasting beyond all Scripture and reason; and others have utterly disregarded it. - JOHN WESLEY
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.
In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.
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.
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.
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.
He true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately ... Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.
Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.
Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
The fruit of the Spirit is the outward evidence of the inward reality of a heart "abiding" in Christ.
The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.