Richard J. Foster Quotes - Page 3

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• Without the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a better word would have been "metaphysical"] change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.

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  Healing, Mean, Discipline

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• 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.

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  Letting Go, Heart, Giving

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

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• reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

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  Addiction, Rejects

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

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• 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.

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  Father, Heart, Reality

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

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• Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

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  Self, Ions, Discipline

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• Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

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  Commitment, Discipline, Gains

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• Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you."

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  Prayer, Praise, Bless

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• In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.

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  Spiritual, Joy, Obedience

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• Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

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  Thinking, Important, Hardest

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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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  Home, Heart, Arms

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

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• Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

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  Prayer, Soul, Siege

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• Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.

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  Empowering, Grace, Grace Of God

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• It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.

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  People, Interesting, Hazards

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

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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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  Jesus, Evil, Humanity

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

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• To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.

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  Christian, Light, Resentment

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

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Way, Assuming

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

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  Children, Air, Average

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• But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of God's love and to confess our needs openly before our brothers and sisters. The fear and pride that clings to us like barnacles cling to others also. In acts of mutual confession we release the power that heals. Our humanity is no longer denied, but transformed.

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  Brother, Pride, People

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Determination, Honesty

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

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

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  Love, God, Christian

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

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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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  Prayer, Worry, Ongoing

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest requests at times! Often we are grieved by the meanness and selfishness in their requests, but we would be all the more grieved if they never came to us even with their meanness and selfishness. We are simply glad that they do come--mixed motives and all.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Children

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

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  Prayer, People, Giving

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• 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.

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  Discipline, Needs, Helping

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

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• Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying.

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  Prayer, Glasses, People

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.11, Harper Collins

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