The Task Of The Prophet Is Not

Like A Child Exploring The Attic Of An Old House On A Rainy Day, Discovering A Trunk Full Of Treasure And Then Calling All His Brothers And Sisters To Share The Find, Richard J. 'foster Has 'found' The Spiritual Disciplines That The Modern World Has Stored Away And Forgot, And Has Excitedly Called Us To Celebrate Them. For They Are, As He Shows Us, The Instruments Of Joy, The Way Into Mature Christian Spirituality And Abundant Life.

Wisdom Is The Art Of Living Skillfully In Whatever Actual Conditions We Find Ourselves.

The Poor Are Not A Problem To Be Solved But A People To Join.

I Will Not Try To Run My Own Life Or The Lives Of Others; That Is God's Business.

Every Call To Worship Is A Call Into The Real World.... I Encounter Such Constant And Widespread Lying About Reality Each Day And Meet With Such Skilled And Systematic Distortion Of The Truth That I'm Always In Danger Of Losing My Grip On Reality. The Reality, Of Course, Is That God Is Sovereign And Christ Is Savior. The Reality Is That Prayer Is My Mother Tongue And The Eucharist My Basic Food. The Reality Is That Baptism, Not Myers-briggs, Defines Who I Am.