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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
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.
Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.
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 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
You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
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.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
