Richard J. Foster

reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

— Richard J. Foster

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

— Richard J. Foster

Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being…

— Richard J. Foster

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from…

— Richard J. Foster

“True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors…

— Richard J. Foster

“You see, the goal of the Christian life is not simply to get us into heaven, but to get heaven into us!”

— Richard J. Foster

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it…

— Richard J. Foster

God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.

— Richard J. Foster

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

— Richard J. Foster

“To worship is to experience Reality, to touch Life. It is to know, to feel, to experience the resurrected Christ in the…

— Richard J. Foster

“Self-denial is an unfamiliar concept for many of us today, and we worry that it requires losing our individuality. But all self-denial…

— Richard J. Foster

“It is that we should learn to pray even while we are dwelling on evil. Perhaps we are waging an interior battle…

— Richard J. Foster

“Begin now to obey Him in every way you can. Start right where you are, in the midst of all the tasks…

— Richard J. Foster

“The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a…

— Richard J. Foster

“As Martin Luther writes: The sinful worship of Mammon does not consist in eating and drinking and wearing clothes . . .…

— Richard J. Foster

“Remember that God’s intention is that we each come to a fuller knowledge of him as we deepen our personal fellowship with…

— Richard J. Foster

Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance.…

— Richard J. Foster

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation…

— Richard J. Foster

“Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have…

— Richard J. Foster

“Simple Prayer involves ordinary people bringing ordinary concerns to a loving and compassionate Father. There is no pretense in Simple Prayer. We…

— Richard J. Foster

“Discipline brings freedom. The purpose of meditation is to enable us to hear God more clearly. Meditation is listening, sensing, heeding the…

— Richard J. Foster

“Father God, you sent your Son to this earth that we may be one, and yet we fail so miserably. We look…

— Richard J. Foster

Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness.…

— Richard J. Foster

“The Good News must be backed by integrity in our lives. We cannot proclaim His love if we close our hearts to…

— 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…

— Richard J. Foster

“The fruit of the Spirit is the outward evidence of the inward reality of a heart “abiding” in Christ.”

— Richard J. Foster

If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should…

— Richard J. Foster

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

— Richard J. Foster

When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that…

— Richard J. Foster

“What happens in meditation is that we create the emotional and spiritual space which allows Christ to construct an inner sanctuary in…

— Richard J. Foster

“And so the test of whether or not we have really gotten the point of the Bible would then be the quality…

— Richard J. Foster

Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.

— Richard J. Foster

“Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul. When our reply…

— Richard J. Foster

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It…

— Richard J. Foster

“Simplicity is freedom. Duplicity is bondage. Simplicity brings joy and balance. Duplicity brings anxiety and fear.”

— Richard J. Foster

“As Thomas Merton says, “We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will…

— Richard J. Foster

We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak…

— Richard J. Foster

“One of the fruits of silence is the freedom to let God be our justifier. We don’t need to straighten others out.”

— Richard J. Foster

“A Christian’s speech should bless, not berate or abuse. The tongue betrays the world that is in one’s heart; it is a…

— Richard J. Foster

May God give you - and me- the courage, the wisdom, the strength always to hold the kingdom of God as the…

— Richard J. Foster