Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. — Richard J. Foster
Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God’s thoughts after him: — Richard J. Foster
Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul. — Richard J. Foster
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish — Richard J. Foster
Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honour, magnify, and bless God. — Richard J. Foster
Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. — Richard J. Foster
The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. — Richard J. Foster
If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them — Richard J. Foster