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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
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.
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.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.
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.
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
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
