More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of Israel and Jesus, the story of Jesus and the stories that Jesus told. We let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that Jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the Jesus way.
The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
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.
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
