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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
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.
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.
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
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.
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 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.
