Richard Foster Quotes

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

Program your mind with what God says about you and a transformation will take place.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

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

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!

Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.

There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

I became a Christian man in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page, but it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control.

It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops: does the Master break down doors to enter His own home? Without earthquake, or thunderclap: the flame has lit up the whole world from within.