Richard J. Foster, Celebration Of Discipline Quotes
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.
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.
To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion
Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.
If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.
Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed
True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.
Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.
Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.
Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.
The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.
To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.
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.
The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.
Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.
We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.
The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..
