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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
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.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
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.
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
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 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.
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
