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Richard James Foster is a Christian theologian and author in the Quaker tradition. His writings speak to a broad Christian audience. Born in 1942, in New Mexico, Foster has been a professor at Friends University and pastor of Evangelical Friends churches. Foster resides in Denver, Colorado. He earned his undergraduate degree at George Fox University in Oregon and his Doctor of Pastoral Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, and received an honorary doctorate from Houghton College.

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Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.

Discipline, Disciplines, Mean, Pride, Pulls, Rendered

In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.

Change, Compassion, Heart, Power, Soul, Worship

Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest requests at times! Often we are grieved by the meanness and selfishness in their requests, but we would be all the more grieved if they never came to us even with their meanness and selfishness. We are simply glad that they do come--mixed motives and all.

Children, Come, Jesus, Parents, Prayer, Requests

Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center

Center, Divine, Simplicity, Touch

He is inviting you - and me - to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.

Arms, Created, Enlarged, Heart, Home

It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.

Hazard, Hazards, Interesting, People

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

Begins, Modern Life, Needs, Obedience, Opiates, Saves

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.

Acceptance, Contentment, Everyday, Patience

To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.

Christian, Eternity, Light, Resentment, Same, Tenacity

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

Among, Hardest, Important, Thinking, Work

We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

Air, Earth, Spewing, Toxic, Toxic Waste

There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence and solitude is to be able to see and hear. Control rather than no noise is the key to silence. James saw clearly that the person who could control his tounge is perfect (James 3:1-12). Under the Discipline of silence and solitude we learn when to speak and when to refrain from speaking.

Control, Discipline, Eye, Keys, Open, Under

Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.

Love, God, Christian, Worship, Father, Overtures

The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.

Christian, Discovery, God, Home, Lying, Spectacular

Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

Culture, Giving, Ideas, Illusion, Obsession, Things

Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you. "

Bless, Praise, Prayer, Simply

reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

Addiction, Producing, Reject, Rejects

In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.

Congregation, Lord, Perfectly, Person, Speak, Worship

If worship does not change us it has not been worship.

Change, Christian, Doe, Worship

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

Integrity, Live, Live Life, Realities, Reality, Terrible

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