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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.
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 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.
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
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.
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.
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
