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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.
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.
You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).
