Quotes by Richard J Foster

About Richard J Foster:

Richard James Foster is a Christian theologian and author in the Quaker tradition. His writings speak to a broad Christian audience. Born in 1942, in New Mexico, Foster has been a professor at Friends University and pastor of Evangelical Friends churches. Foster resides in Denver, Colorado. He earned his undergraduate degree at George Fox University in Oregon and his Doctor of Pastoral Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary,and received an honorary doctorate from Houghton College.
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Confession is a difficult discipline for us, because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else has advanced so far into holiness that we are isolate...

Richard J Foster

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

Richard J Foster

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

Richard J Foster

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

Richard J Foster

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

Richard J Foster

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Richard J Foster

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

Richard J Foster

Radical self-denial gives the feel of adventure. If we forsake all, we even have the chance of glorious martyrdom. But in service, we must experience the many little death of going beyond ourselves. Service banishes us to the mundane, the ordinary, t...

Richard J Foster

Freedom from anxiety is characterized by three inner attitudes. If what we have we received as a gift, and if what we have is to be cared for by God, and if what we have is available to others, then we will possess freedom from anxiety.

Richard J Foster

We do not have to have the correct answers to listen well. In fact, often the correct answers are a hindrance to listening well, for we become more anxious to give the correct answer than to hear.

Richard J Foster

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

Richard J Foster

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

Richard J Foster

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to ...

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

Richard J. Foster

Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have the message second-hand. One of Israel's fatal mistakes was their insistence on having a human king rather than resting on the theocrati...

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Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

Richard J. Foster

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

Richard J. Foster

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

Richard J. Foster

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

Richard J. Foster

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

Richard J. Foster

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

Richard J. Foster

Author Bio

  • NameRichard J. Foster
  • DescriptionAmerican Quaker theologian
  • AliasesRichard James Foster
  • Born1942
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Theologian