You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.
RICHARD J. FOSTERGrace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
More Richard J. Foster Quotes
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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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Simplicity is freedom.
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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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Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.
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Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not sustain us; God sustains us.
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The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.
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reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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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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The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
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Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
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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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Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.
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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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