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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
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.
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
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 life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
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.
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
