Richard Foster Quotes

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

The more you try to grip control of your life the more God's gonna untangle that from you. He's going to make things go where you have to rely on Him.

Everything I do in life I put in the hands of God, my creator.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.

Two of the biggest conversational blunders you can make are saying something when you should stay silent, and staying silent when you should say something.

The instructor is always silent when the test is given... ...When God is silent in your life... You are being tested.

Whatever the particular call is, the particular sacrifice God asks you to make, the particular cross He wishes you to embrace, whatever the particular path He wants you to tread, will you rise up, and say in your heart, "Yes, Lord, I accept it; I submit, I yield, I pledge myself to walk in that path, and to follow that Voice, and to trust Thee with the consequences"? Oh! but you say, "I don't know what He will want next." No, we none of us know that, but we know we shall be safe in His hands.

We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.

I don't have control over everything; God has control over everything and I trust him, so I don't worry.

My faith kind of keeps me in touch with the idea that I'm not in control of things.

A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.