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.
Richard J. FosterFour times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
Richard J. FosterWe over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.
Richard J. FosterForms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the best possible liturgy, but we have not worshiped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit.
Richard J. FosterIt is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.
Richard J. FosterWithout the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a better word would have been "metaphysical"] change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.
Richard J. Foster