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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.
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.
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
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.
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
