"..the true test of spirituality [is] in the……" — Richard J. Foster
"..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God."
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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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