Quotes. Read them.

"Superficiality is the curse of our age."


"Joy is the keynote of all the Disciplines."


"The primary requirement is a longing after God."


"When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight."


"Our world is hungry for genuinely changed people."


"Christian meditation, very simply, is the ability to hear God's voice and obey his word."


"But God continued to reach out to his rebellious children, and in stories of such persons as Cain, Abel, Noah, and Abraham we see God speaking and acting, teaching and guiding."


"He declared that he was the good Shepherd and that his sheep know his voice (John 10:4)."


"He is resurrected and at work in our world. He is not idle, nor has he developed laryngitis."

"Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind."


"But there is a danger in thinking only in terms of detachment as Jesus indicates in his story of the man who had been emptied of evil but not filled with good. 'When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man . . . he goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than the himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first' (Luke 11:24-26). No, detachment is not enough; we must go on to attachment."


"Meditation has no point and no reality unless it is firmly rooted in life."


". . . meditation as communication between the Lover and the one beloved."


". . . resting in him whom we have found, who loves us, who is near to us, who comes to us to draw us to himself."


"But the desire to meditate, and the grace to begin meditating, should be taken as an implicit promise of further graces."


"God created us with an imagination, and as Lord of his creation he can and does redeem it and use it for the work of the kingdom of God."


"Smell the sea. hear the lap of water along the shore. See the crowd. Feel the sun on your head and the hunger in your stomach. Taste the salt in the air. Touch the hem of his garment."


"Our task is not so much to study the passage as it is to be initiated into the reality of which the passage speaks."


"Rather than dissecting peace we are entering into it."


"To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives."


"We begin to think God's thoughts after him: to desire the things he desires, to love the things he loves, to will the things he wills."


"David's desire for God broke the self-indulgent chains of sleep. . ."


"I love to be alone in my cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer. I set apart this day for secret fasting and prayer to God."


". . . we are committed to letting go of our will whenever it conflicts with the will and way of God."


"We begin praying for others by first quieting our fleshly activity and listening to the silent thunder of the Lord of hosts."


"Frequently our lack is not faith but compassion."


"Nor are we trying to manipulate God and tell him what to do. . . Our prayer is to be like a reflex action to God's prior initiative upon the heart."


"Your own children can and should be changed through your prayers. Pray for them in the daytime with their participation; pray for them at night when they are asleep. One delightful approach is to go into the bedroom and lightly place your hands on the sleeping child. Ask Christ to flow through your hands healing every emotional trauma and hurt feeling your child experienced that day."


"I want a life of greater, deeper, truer prayer."


- Richard Foster