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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
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.
To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).
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.
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
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.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
