186 Quotes by Richard J. Foster

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.

In contemporary society our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds.

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

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.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

Darkness is a definite experience of prayer. It is to be expected, even embraced.

You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.

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.