More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
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.
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.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
