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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.

Richard J. Foster

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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Excellent Life Problem Things
Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Holy Obedience Worship
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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Country Environmental Moving
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Age Satisfaction Spiritual
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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Assuming Prayer Way
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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Order People Solitude
Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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Emptiness Loneliness Solitude
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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Doe Perfect Spheres
Simplicity is freedom.
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Freedom Happen Simplicity
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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Determination Honesty Spiritual
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Demand Stoicism Universe
Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Four Goal Years
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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Evil Humanity Jesus
The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Discipline Dream Spiritual
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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Life Simple Things Thinking
The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.
RICHARD J. FOSTER

Attitude Christian Spiritual

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