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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.
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.
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
