Quotes by Richard J. Foster

Richard J. Foster (b. 1942) — Theologe und Buchautor · Quäker · USA

Richard J. Foster (* 1942) ist ein US-amerikanischer Quäker-Pastor, Theologieprofessor und Buchautor. Er erlangte durch sein Werk „Celebration of Discipline“ sowie die Gründung der Initiative Renovaré weltweite Bekanntheit, stieß jedoch bei fundamentalistischen Evangelikalen wegen der Einbindung kontemplativer und mystischer Traditionen auf Kritik. Bibellesern dient er bis heute als Impulsgeber für die praktische Einübung geistlicher Disziplinen wie Stille, Fasten und Gebet im Alltag.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Prayer & Silence, Love, Meaning & Identity, Faith & Trust, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Grace & Redemption, Guilt & Forgiveness, Hope & Confidence

Quotes by Richard J. Foster

When we withdraw into silence and solitude, we lay down our office as chief of the universe.
Richard J. Foster

I want only the best for other people, but I am jealous when they get it. Thank you for accepting me with all my contradictions.
Richard J. Foster

True prayer does not arise where we clench our teeth, but where we fall in love.
Richard J. Foster

Our prayers don't have to pass through the ceiling — God is below the ceiling too!
Richard J. Foster

God takes our prayers as they are. Just as a small child cannot paint a bad picture, a child of God cannot pray a bad prayer.
Richard J. Foster

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
Richard J. Foster

We do not need to first bring God to the point of wanting to forgive us. In truth, it is God who makes us willing to seek his forgiveness.
Richard J. Foster

We can be scandalously free of fear, because we stand under the watchful eye of the one who richly provides for the birds of the air and the lilies of the field.
Richard J. Foster

Joy, not grim determination, is the mark of holy obedience.
Richard J. Foster

In times of abandonment we become free from having to feel spiritually good, and learn to trust.
Richard J. Foster

Whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, knows all things, and does not condemn us!
Richard J. Foster

It doesn't matter if we can hardly believe anymore, or are frayed and broken by life's hardships and burdens. God's arms are wide open.
Richard J. Foster

Jesus would never blow out the smallest hope.
Richard J. Foster

We will not be able to abolish all injustice—that will only come with Christ's return. But we are called to establish bridgeheads of hope everywhere.
Richard J. Foster

The most wonderful thing that can happen to a person is to be loved. The great truth is that each one of us is truly loved, and always has been loved.
Richard J. Foster

The devil presses and condemns, but God draws and encourages.
Richard J. Foster

We do not need to pretend to be holier or more blessed than we actually are. We pour out our heart to God, who is greater than our heart and knows all things.
Richard J. Foster

The discovery of God lies in the ordinary and the everyday, not in the spectacular and heroic.
Richard J. Foster

When I truly know that God loves me, nothing is the same anymore. I am a creature destined for eternity, of infinite worth.
Richard J. Foster

Failure is the way we learn to pray.
Richard J. Foster

Love is the heart's response to the overwhelming goodness of God. So simply come to him in unadorned honesty and speak with him.
Richard J. Foster

Only when we have learned to be truly still will we be able to speak the necessary word, at the moment it is needed.
Richard J. Foster

Forgiveness means that the power of love that binds us together is greater than the power of the offense that separates us.
Richard J. Foster

Suffering is not in vain! God takes it and uses it for something beautiful, far more beautiful than we can imagine.
Richard J. Foster

God's greatest joy lies in forgiving.
Richard J. Foster

When we pray, we come to learn to love, to relax in God's presence.
Richard J. Foster

Talking is not necessary to pray. Only love is truly necessary.
Richard J. Foster

Prayer is not about methods and definitions, but about the wonderful, glorious relationship and encounter that God wants to have with his children.
Richard J. Foster

Nothing can touch us as deeply as the experience that God loves us from the depths of his heart.
Richard J. Foster

We can be sure: God, who knows everything and sees everything, will set everything right in the end. And even better: he will wipe away every tear.
Richard J. Foster

God wants us to be wholeheartedly present wherever we are.
Richard J. Foster

God does not destroy our will, but reshapes it.
Richard J. Foster

The only place God can bless us is where we are, for that is where we truly are!
Richard J. Foster

Even in our prayerlessness we can long for God. Then the longing itself becomes prayer.
Richard J. Foster

Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.
Richard J. Foster

We should pray as we are, bringing before God what we feel. God does not come into our lives without an invitation. He waits for us to open the doors.
Richard J. Foster

Because God is greater than your heart, you can come to God just as you are.
Richard J. Foster

In silence we can hear the heartbeat of God.
Richard J. Foster

History is full of examples of ordinary people whom God called to make an impact - far beyond what they themselves thought possible.
Richard J. Foster

We don't always need to have an answer in order to listen well.
Richard J. Foster

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