Richard J. Foster Quotes

• When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

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  Believe, Passion, Transformation

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Discipline

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.7, Harper Collins

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

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  Three, Crowds, Noise

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.

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  Christian, Lying, Home

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• Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.

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  Prayer, Real, Passion

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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

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  Intelligent, Numbers, People

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• We have real difficulty here because everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves? People may genuinely want to be good, but seldom are they prepared to do what it takes to produce the inward life of goodness that can form the soul. Personal formation into the likeness of Christ is arduous and lifelong.

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  Real, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.

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  Pride, Light, Self

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• Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.

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  Distance, Heart, Grieving

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Conformarse con una sociedad enferma es estar enfermo.

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  Sick, Conformity, Sick Society

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer. To enter the gaze of the Holy is never to be the same. To bathe in the Light in quiet wonder and glad surrender is to be slowly, permanently transformed. There is a richer inward orientation, a deep hunger for communion. We feel as if we are being taken over by a new control Center, and so we are.

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  Christian, Prayer, Taken

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

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  Prayer, Children, Way

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are so accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. If we are silent, who will take control? God will take control, but we will never let him take control until we trust him. Silence is intimately related to trust.

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  Silence, Bears, Silent

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• 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. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture.

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  Prayer, Selfish, Tangled

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.8, Harper Collins

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

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  Christian, Doe, Worship

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• Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.

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  Letting Go, Heart, Giving

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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

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  Falling In Love, Prayer, Real

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

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  Addiction, Rejects

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• La soledad es el vacío interior. La soledad es la plenitud interior.

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  Loneliness, Solitude, Emptiness

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.

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  Things In Life, Problem, Excellent

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

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  Ideas, Giving, Culture

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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

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  Prayer, Action, Daily Life

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• The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is new attentiveness to their needs, new responsiveness to their hurts. Thomas Merton observes, 'It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them.... Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

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  Hurt, Brother, Compassion

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• To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.

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  Kindness, Taken, Self

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.

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  Inspirational, Religious, Heart

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