More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. We think that if we don’t feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different: that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting. Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
