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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
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.
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 gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's always a truth in specific. The gospel is never a commentary on ideas or cultures or conditions; it's always about actual persons, actual pains, actual troubles, actual sin; you, me; who you are and what you've done; who I am and what I've done.
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.
GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.
O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
