Richard J. Foster Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.

  Richard J. Foster

  Love, God, Christian

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

• We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.

  Richard J. Foster

  Heart, Desire, Sanctuary

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

• Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous trust...They point us toward a way of living in which everything we have we receive as a gift, and everything we have is cared for by God, and everything we have is available to others when it is right and good. This reality frames the heart of Christian simplicity. It is the means of liberation and power to do what is right and to overcome the forces of fear and avarice.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

• Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.

  Richard J. Foster

  Letting Go, Heart, Giving

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

• Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit and truth.' It is kindled within us only when the Spirit of God touches our human spirit.

  Richard J. Foster

  Father, Heart, Reality

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

• Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.

  Richard J. Foster

  Distance, Heart, Grieving

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.1, Harper Collins

• 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

  Christian, Spiritual, Attitude

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.3, Harper Collins

• God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.

  Richard J. Foster

  Inspirational, Religious, Heart

• Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.

  Richard J. Foster

  Heart, Focus, Honor

• In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.

  Richard J. Foster

  Heart, Compassion, Soul

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

• Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Running, Distance

• 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. Foster

  Home, Heart, Arms

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.1, Harper Collins

• The Spiritual Disciplines are things that we do. We must never lose sight of this fact. It is one thing to talk piously about 'the solitude of the heart,' but if that does not somehow work its way into our experience, then we have missed the point of the Disciplines. We are dealing with actions, not merely states of mind.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Heart, Sight

• Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. God celebrates our feeble expressions of gratitude.

  Richard J. Foster

  Gratitude, Heart, Eye

• Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Heart, Voice

• Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Father, Heart

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