"Our problem is that we assume prayer is……" — Richard J. Foster
"Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent."
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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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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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