Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home - Hardcover

Foster, Richard J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060628464 ISBN 13: 9780060628468

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, 2002

Synopsis

[ { By Foster, Richard J. ( Author ) PRAYER - 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: FINDING THE HEART'S TRUE HOME (ANNIVERSARY) Aug-20-2002 Hardcover } ]

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Review:

Of course there are hundreds of books on prayer and much of the advice in them is likely to be the same. So what is it that distinguishes the best of these many books? Call it a kind of wisdom, a sense that here's someone who knows something of God's heart. A good example can be found in this fine book by the Quaker writer and teacher Richard Foster. The author of the bestselling Celebration of Discipline explores various aspects of prayer, which he defines in one place as "the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul". Beginning with the simplest forms of prayer--what he calls "ordinary people bringing ordinary concerns to a loving and compassionate Father"--he then explores the deeper places where prayer becomes not simply petition but a way of life. He writes of prayer, adoration and rest, sacramental prayer, meditation, and contemplation and, in the final section of the book, moves outward into ministry where prayer meets the needs of the world. In each chapter Foster defines, describes, and gives helpful examples. Above all, he writes with grace--a word I use here in both artistic and spiritual senses. --Doug Thorpe

Review:

"This book has helped me immensely in my struggles for spiritual vitality and depth."--Tony Campolo, Professor of Sociology, Eastern University

"This book is a rare gift... both a guide to prayer and an answer to one."--John Ortberg, author of "If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat"

"A master teaching on the Master Subject."--Eugene H. Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Canada, and author of Answering God

"As one fairly fluent with words, I am hard-pressed to express the impact of this timeless classic on my life. Richard Foster's book is invaluable now, but not quite as invaluable as it will be a hundred years from now."--Brennan Manning, author of The Wisdom of Tenderness

"Magnificent! ... carried us into communion with Christians of every century and denomination."--Rev. John Loren Sandford and Rev. Paula A. Sandford, Co-Founders of Elijah House, Inc.

"You will not find a better guide. This is a landmark book."--Dallas Willard, author of The Divine Conspiracy

"...takes the mystery out of prayer and returns it to the ordinary rhythms of life"--Robert Webber, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060628464
• ISBN 13: 9780060628468
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276