#Quote
More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
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.
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.
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.
There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.
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.
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.
