{"author":"Richard J. Foster","author_id":"Richard+J.+Foster","total_quotes":43,"quotes":[{"text":"Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.","author":"Richard J. Foster","tags":["legalism","rules"],"id":3240,"author_id":"Richard+J.+Foster"},{"text":"Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed.","author":"Richard J. Foster","tags":["discipleship","hypocrisy","religion"],"id":21909,"author_id":"Richard+J.+Foster"},{"text":"Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.","author":"Richard J. Foster","tags":["prayer","thought-life"],"id":23870,"author_id":"Richard+J.+Foster"},{"text":"Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.","author":"Richard J. Foster","tags":["discipline","grace"],"id":38303,"author_id":"Richard+J.+Foster"},{"text":"Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.","author":"Richard J. Foster","tags":["discipleship","evangelism","habits","testimony"],"id":55051,"author_id":"Richard+J.+Foster"},{"text":"Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.","author":"Richard J. Foster","tags":["calvary","forgiveness","golgotha","jesus","salvation","sin","the-cross"],"id":55559,"author_id":"Richard+J.+Foster"},{"text":"To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion.","author":"Richard J. Foster","tags":["idolatry","lust","self-indulgence"],"id":75316,"author_id":"Richard+J.+Foster"},{"text":"Confession is a difficult Discipline for us because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else has advanced so far into holiness that we are isolated and alone in our sin. We cannot bear to reveal our failures and shortcomings to others. We imagine that we are the only ones who have not stepped onto the high road to heaven. Therefore, we hide ourselves from one another and live in veiled lies and hypocrisy.But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of God's love and to confess our needs openly before our brothers and sisters. We know we are not alone in our sin. The fear and pride that cling to us like barnacles cling to others also. We are sinners together. In acts of mutual confession we release the power that heals. Our humanity is no longer denied, but transformed.","author":"Richard J. Foster","tags":["confession","sin","sinners","the-church"],"id":79312,"author_id":"Richard+J.+Foster"},{"text":"To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.","author":"Richard J. Foster","tags":["church","community","discipleship","encouragement","prayer"],"id":95613,"author_id":"Richard+J.+Foster"},{"text":"Confession is a difficult discipline for us, because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else has advanced so far into holiness that we are isolated and alone in our sin.","author":"Richard J. Foster","tags":["church","humility","small-groups"],"id":98932,"author_id":"Richard+J.+Foster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}