"In the spiritual life only one thing produces……" — Richard J. Foster

In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that… - Richard J. Foster

"In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience."

— Richard J. Foster

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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.
Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to…
Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the…
In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To…
Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found…
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But…
Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things…
Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish,…
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an…
If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first,…

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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. — Teresa of Avila
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can… — Hosea Ballou
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. — Wendell Phillips
The reality is just the opposite: the master does nothing. It is in your becoming a disciple that the whole… — Rajneesh
We see baptism as the starting point in our journey of discipleship. Our daily walk with Jesus Christ leads to… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Promptings for us to do good come from the Holy Ghost. These promptings nudge us further along the straight and… — Neal A. Maxwell
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic… — Pope Benedict XVI
You never graduate from the school of discipleship. — Howard G. Hendricks
If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling. — Howard G. Hendricks
When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head. — Howard G. Hendricks
Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by… — R. C. Sproul, Jr.
Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon.… — Neil L. Andersen

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