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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
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.
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
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.
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
