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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
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.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
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.
There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.
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).
If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.
