The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
RICHARD J. FOSTERThe desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
RICHARD J. FOSTEROur 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. FOSTEREach activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.
RICHARD J. FOSTERWorship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
RICHARD J. FOSTERSimplicity is freedom.
RICHARD J. FOSTERJust 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. FOSTERConversion 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. FOSTERGrace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
RICHARD J. FOSTERAs 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.
RICHARD J. FOSTER..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately….Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.
RICHARD J. FOSTERInward 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.
RICHARD J. FOSTERSimplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
RICHARD J. FOSTERFreedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
RICHARD J. FOSTERPrayer 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.
RICHARD J. FOSTERSuperficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
RICHARD J. FOSTERSilence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion
RICHARD J. FOSTER