More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.
The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.
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.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.
