Richard Foster Quotes

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

Let go of this world and take hold of God with both hands.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a “thin place”–a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

I want to breathe in the Spiritual.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I am trying to get closer to God.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.