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Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.
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There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You're serving people and submitting to God as best you can.
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And so the test of whether or not we have really gotten the point of the Bible would then be the quality of love that we show.
— Richard J. Foster
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
Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.
— Richard J. Foster
The imagination, like all our faculties, has participated in the fall.
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The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..
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Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification.
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Through prayer and study, worship and service, we regularly digest God's word into the core of our being, where it feeds and transforms us. Continue
— Richard J. Foster
Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.
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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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Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.
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Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important
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The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.
— Richard J. Foster
Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.
— Richard J. Foster
Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.
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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.
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many things tempt our hearts to put them first and God second. We must root out the desire to worship these things and focus on the true God. The
— Richard J. Foster
Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.
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If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.
— Richard J. Foster
To conform to a sick society is to become sick.
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Some have exalted religious fasting beyond all Scripture and reason; and others have utterly disregarded it. - JOHN WESLEY
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To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.
— Richard J. Foster
Reading the Bible for spiritual transformation is not a one-sided endeavor: it is a dialogue of human spirit and Holy Spirit.
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It is only because of your love, only your love, that the poor will forgive you the bread you give them.
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If worship does not change us it has not been worship.
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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
Nothing must come before the kingdom of God, including the desire for a simple life-style.
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Your prayer must be turned inwards, not towards a God of Heaven nor towards a God far off, but towards God who is closer to you than you are aware.
— Richard J. Foster
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.
— Richard J. Foster
Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.
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Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.
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Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer.
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If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.
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Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.
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You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.
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The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives - altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter.
— Richard J. Foster
Frequently we hold on so tightly to the good that we do know that we cannot receive the greater good that we do not know.
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Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
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You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war (James 4:1, 2).
— Richard J. Foster
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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Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.
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He true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately ... Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.
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all authentic prayer is a scraping of the heart whereby the dregs of the soul are offered up to God.
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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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Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
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The moment we feel we can succeed and attain victory over sin by the strength of our will alone is the moment we are worshiping the will.
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The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.
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When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.
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The quiet power of a life transformed by the grace of God is so explosive that it can redirect the course of human events
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Little children, love one another.
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Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace.
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For our sins, He suffered beneath the burden of that unanswered prayer."1 Here
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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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The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.
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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.
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In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer.
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In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.
— Richard J. Foster
In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.
— Richard J. Foster
True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.
— Richard J. Foster
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."
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Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
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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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Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
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To be effective pray-ers, we need to be effective lovers.
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Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.
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Our prayer is to be like a reflex action to God's prior initiative upon the heart.
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Will not break a bruised reed, or quench a smoldering wick (Isa. 423; Matt. 12:20).
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It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.
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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.
— Richard J. Foster
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
We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.
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Prayer is - a means of uniting us unto Himself.
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We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.
— Richard J. Foster
We would do well to come to the Bible with these words ringing in our ears: 'You have heard it said ... but I say to you ...
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God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
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Simplicity is freedom.
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Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.
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An intelligent, humble, careful, intensive, straight forward reading of the Bible will direct us into Life in the Kingdom of God.
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Let us be among those who believe that the inner transformation of our lives is a goal worthy of our best effort. -P. 11
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It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.
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Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.
— Richard J. Foster
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Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed
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We today yearn for prayer and hide from prayer. We are attracted to it and repelled by it.
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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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To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion
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We simply cannot consider the earth apart from Christ's footsteps imprinted upon it.
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Willpower will never succeed in dealing with the deeply ingrained habits of sin. Emmet
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The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.
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You see, the goal of the Christian life is not simply to get us into heaven, but to get heaven into us!
— Richard J. Foster
PRAYER IS THE serious business of the Church, the first and best business it renders for the world.
— Richard J. Foster
A. W. Tozer says, "The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him."1
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The fruit of the Spirit is the outward evidence of the inward reality of a heart "abiding" in Christ.
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Submission reaches the end of its tether when it becomes destructive.
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