186 Quotes by Richard J. Foster

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.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer.

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.

Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

PRAYER IS THE serious business of the Church, the first and best business it renders for the world.

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

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.

We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.