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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
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
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 Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
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.
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 is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
