FOSTER ON PRAYER
Richard Foster, in his well- known book Celebration of Discipline starts out his chapter on the discipline of prayer this way: “Prayer catapults us onto the frontier of the spiritual life. Of all the Spiritual Disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father. Meditation introduces us to the inner life, fasting is an accompanying means, study transforms our minds, but it is the Discipline of prayer that brings us into the deepest and highest work of the human spirit. Real prayer is life creating and life changing. ‘Prayer — secret, fervent, believing prayer — lies at the root of all personal godliness,’ writes William Carey. Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline, 33
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