"Countless people pray far more than they know.……" — Richard J. Foster
"Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying."
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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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Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to…
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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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More Condemn Quotes
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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
— Georges Bernanos
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Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking…
— David Cameron
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
— Albert Camus
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If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as…
— Richard Carmona
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our…
— Jimmy Carter
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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize…
— Deepak Chopra
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before…
— Huldrych Zwingli
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I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of…
— Gene Roddenberry
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
— Lionel Trilling
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which…
— Emile Durkheim
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Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.
— Georg Groddeck
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