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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
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.
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
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.
The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies
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.
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
