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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
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.
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
