Richard J. Foster Quotes

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

The goal of work is not to gain wealth and possessions, but to serve the common good and bring glory to God.

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

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

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.

If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.