Richard J. Foster Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

  Richard J. Foster

  Mean, Pride, Discipline

• Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.

  Richard J. Foster

  Letting Go, Heart, Giving

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

• If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, People, Giving

• Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Running, Distance

• In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Determination, Honesty

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.3, Harper Collins

• May God give you - and me- the courage, the wisdom, the strength always to hold the kingdom of God as the number one priority of our lives. To do so is to live in simplicity.

  Richard J. Foster

  Numbers, Giving, Simplicity

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

• 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.

  Richard J. Foster

  Ideas, Giving, Culture

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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