Quotes by Richard J. Foster

Richard J. Foster

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

Commitment

Discipline

Gains

And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about “proper” praying, just talk to God.

Ongoing

Prayer

Worry

But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of God’s love and to confess our needs openly before our brothers and sisters. The fear and pride that clings to us like barnacles cling to others also. In acts of mutual confession we release the power that heals. Our humanity is no longer denied, but transformed.

Brother

People

Pride

Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

Conformity

Sick

Sick Society

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects – and infects – every sphere of our living.

Doe

Perfect

Spheres

Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a “stained-glass” image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying.

Glasses

People

Prayer

Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the best possible liturgy, but we have not worshiped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit.

Doe

Technique

Use

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

Doe

Mean

Opportunity

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.

Giving

Heart

Letting Go

Goals are discovered, not made.

Goal

Made

Motivational

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Addiction

Age

Air

Animal

Arms

Attitude

Average

Bears

Believe

Bless

Brother

Children

Christian

Commitment

Compassion

Conformity

Conversation

Culture

Demand

Desire

Determination

Discipline

Distance

Divine

Doe

Domination

Dream

Earth

Ego

Embrace

Empowering

Emptiness

Eye

Firsts

Gains

Giving

Glasses

Goal

Grace

Grace Of God

Gratitude

Greatness

Grieving

Hardest

Healing

Heart

Helping

Holy

Home

Honesty

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Quotes by Richard J. Foster

Richard J. Foster

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about “proper” praying, just talk to God.

Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects – and infects – every sphere of our living.

Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a “stained-glass” image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying.

Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the best possible liturgy, but we have not worshiped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

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.

Goals are discovered, not made.

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