Richard J. Foster Quotes

Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

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

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

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

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

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

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.

Let’s discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart – our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.

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.