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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
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.
You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
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.
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 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
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
