15 Quotes by Richard J Foster

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

We do not have to have the correct answers to listen well. In fact, often the correct answers are a hindrance to listening well, for we become more anxious to give the correct answer than to hear.

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

Restriction often enhances clarity.

Freedom from anxiety is characterized by three inner attitudes. If what we have we received as a gift, and if what we have is to be cared for by God, and if what we have is available to others, then we will possess freedom from anxiety.

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

Radical self-denial gives the feel of adventure. If we forsake all, we even have the chance of glorious martyrdom. But in service, we must experience the many little death of going beyond ourselves. Service banishes us to the mundane, the ordinary, the trivial

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.