"Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart……" — Richard J. Foster
"Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness."
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79 Quotes by Richard J. Foster
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Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.
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Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the…
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In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To…
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Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found…
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Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But…
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Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things…
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Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.
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The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish,…
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God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
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As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an…
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If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first,…
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If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give…
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get…
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is…
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful…
— C.S. Lewis
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There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way…
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its…
— C.S. Lewis
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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy.…
— John Ralston Saul
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We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden,…
— Aimee Semple McPherson
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One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into…
— Michael Josephson
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I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically,…
— Pope John Paul II
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We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the…
— Pope John Paul II
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Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you…
— Mother Teresa
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