"To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you."
~Theophan the Recluse (as quoted by Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline)

"Meditation is the duty of all."
~Jeremy Taylor (as quoted by Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline)

"I am being driven forward
Into an unknown lane....
Shall I ever get there?
There where life resounds,
A clear pure note
In the silence."
~Dag Hammarskjold (as quoted by Richard Foster, Streams of Living Water)

" The idea of this pursuit by the Hound of Heaven fascinated me. The recurrance of it, the inevitableness of the outcome made me feel that sooner or later I would have to pause in the mad rush of living and remember my first beginning and my last end."
~Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness (as quoted by R. Foster in Streams of Living Water)

"Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership—it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God."
~Richard Foster, A Life Formed in the Spirit