More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
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.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
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 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.
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.
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.
If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.
