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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
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The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
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.
The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.
Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.
