15 Quotes by Richard J Foster

Confession is a difficult discipline for us, because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else has advanced so far into holiness that we are isolated and alone in our sin.

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Spiritual disciplines can do nothing. They can only get us to the place where something can be done.

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

The imagination, like all our faculties, has participated in the fall.