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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
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.
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).
It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
