Richard Foster Quotes

I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me.

Once God puts something in your heart - you know, God talks to everyone different.

The minister and the priest teach that the organization is greater. No great philosophy has ever come from an organization, but from an individual whose research has been a personal study of God and ITS ways.

The object of our prayers should not be to present a wish list or a series of requests but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is eager to bestow, according to His will and timing.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

You need to have time to really hear God.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science that gives us any rest.

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.

I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don't think we ask enough: 'God what do you want to do with me?' Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives.

The most important thing of all is that God is talking to me.

As always, I am receptive to whatever doors God may open.

I think God is sending us messages all the time but we get so busy fulfilling our ambitions or in our day-to-day tasks that we forget to connect to God.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

Explore daily the will of God.

My hope is that 'Beyond the Heavens' will encourage people to explore faith, open their mind and go beyond what they think they know. That is what my mother encouraged me to do. I hope to encourage others to do the same through this story.

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

God has leveraged the human spirit to move in His direction, and all the material we need to bring a person to the realization that they were created by God actually already exists inside that person.

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.

The word of God is a Christian's instructions for life. God speaks to us through His word, so we cannot constantly be running on empty.