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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
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.
There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
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.
The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
