You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
RICHARD J. FOSTERIn intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.
More Richard J. Foster Quotes
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Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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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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Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
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Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.
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Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion
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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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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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..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately….Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.
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We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.
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Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come “underneath,” where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.
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We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.
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Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God’s great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.
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As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.
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Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. Its just straight-out ego gratification – how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.
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Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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