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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
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.
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
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.
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.
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.
