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Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines QUOTES

Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines QUOTES

1 " The humble man feels no jealousy or envy. He can praise God when others are preferred and blessed before him. He can bear to hear others praised and himself forgotten, because in God’s presence he has learned to say with Paul, “I be nothing” (2 Cor. 12:11). He has received the spirit of Jesus, who did not please Himself and did not seek His own honor, as the spirit of his life.” —Andrew Murray, Humility 6 "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

2 " rejoice and make a fool of yourself for God the way lovers have always made fools of themselves for the one they love.” —Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

3 " Celebration heartily done makes our deprivations and sorrows seem small, and we find in it great strength to do the will of our God because his goodness becomes so real to us.” —Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines8 "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

4 " To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn’t already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the Golden Gate Bridge.” —Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

5 " all authentic prayer is a scraping of the heart whereby the dregs of the soul are offered up to God. "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

6 " Solitude The creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposefully abstaining from interaction with other human beings, so that, freed from competing loyalties, we can be found by God The "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

7 " I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.” —C. S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms6 "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

8 " But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy them from you for a price: I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

9 " Lord, take as your right, and receive as my gift, all my freedom, my memory, my understanding and my will. Whatever I am and whatever I possess, you have given it to me; I restore it all to you again, to be at your disposal, according to your will. Give me only a love for you, and the gift of your grace; then I am rich enough, and ask for nothing more. —St. Ignatius of Loyola "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

10 " Spiritual Disciplines involve doing what we can do to receive from God the power to do what we cannot. "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

11 " Dallas Willard writes, “If you want to experience the flow of love as never before, the next time you are in a competitive situation, pray that the others around you will be more outstanding, more praised, and more used of God than yourself. If Christians were universally to do this for each other, the earth would soon be filled with the knowledge of God’s glory.”4 "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

12 " My dearest Lord, be thou a bright flame before me, a guiding star above me, a smooth path beneath me, a kindly shepherd behind me, today and for evermore. —St. Columba of Iona "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

13 " As Richard Foster explains, “Though silence sometimes involves the absence of speech, it always involves the act of listening. Simply to refrain from talking, without a heart listening to God, is not silence.”1 "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

14 " PRAYER IS THE serious business of the Church, the first and best business it renders for the world. "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

15 " The Bible is the loving heart of God made visible and plain. And receiving this message of exquisite love is the great privilege of all who long for life with God. "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

16 " Through prayer and study, worship and service, we regularly digest God’s word into the core of our being, where it feeds and transforms us. Continue "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

17 " Today, O Lord, I yield myself to you. May your will be my delight today. May your way have perfect sway in me. May your love be the pattern of my living. —Richard J. Foster, Prayers from the Heart12 "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

18 " The water was only parted once they had acted in faith and followed God. They could not count on any plans, because God gave them none. He only gave them himself. God was the plan. As "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

19 " O how abundant is your goodness that you have laid up for those who fear you, and accomplished for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of everyone! In the shelter of your presence you hide them from human plots; you hold them safe under your shelter from contentious tongues. "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

20 " Labor to work yourself up into a temper correspondent with what you read, for that reading is useless which only enlightens the understanding without warming the affections. And therefore intersperse, here and there, earnest aspirations to God for his heat as well as his light.” —John Wesley, “Advice for Spiritual Reading”3 "

― Richard J. Foster , Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines