He is inviting you – and me – to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.
RICHARD J. FOSTERLove, 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.
More Richard J. Foster Quotes
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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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Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
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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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Simplicity is freedom.
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You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
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What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.
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Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center
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The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.
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It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.
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If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.
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In 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.
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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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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.
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