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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
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The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
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).
The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
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.
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.
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.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
