Prayer is simply saying “thank you, bless you, praise you.”
RICHARD J. FOSTERIt is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
More Richard J. Foster Quotes
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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.
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Simplicity is freedom.
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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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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.
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Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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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.
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In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.
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Prayer is – listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the “ear of our hearts.”
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Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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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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Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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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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Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.
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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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The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.
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