Richard J. Foster

Quotes

• “If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with...”
• “Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the conce...”
• “Confession is a difficult discipline for us, because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of sa...”
• “Radical self-denial gives the feel of adventure. If we forsake all, we even have the chance of glorious martyrdom. But i...”
• “Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his relucta...”
• “Freedom from anxiety is characterized by three inner attitudes. If what we have we received as a gift, and if what we ha...”
• “We do not have to have the correct answers to listen well. In fact, often the correct answers are a hindrance to listeni...”
• “Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwi...”
• “Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and ...”
• “Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacram...”
• “In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others canno...”
• “True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.”
• “Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.”
• “The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.”
• “Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.”
• “Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed”
• “The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.”
• “Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.”
• “Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.”
• “The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..”
• “Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.”
• “The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.”
• “To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.”
• “Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.”
• “Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.”
• “To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion”
• “Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.”
• “To conform to a sick society is to become sick.”
• “Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.”
• “Restriction often enhances clarity.”