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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.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Plot
Stories
Scripture
Eugene H. Peterson
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.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Air
People
Glimpse
Eugene H. Peterson
It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is
― Eugene H. Peterson
Spiritual
Companionship
Easier
Eugene H. Peterson
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Faith
Religious
Pain
Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer
Eugene H. Peterson
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Religious
Entrepreneur
Strategy
Eugene H. Peterson
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
― Eugene H. Peterson
LifeChanging
Suffering
Pity
Eugene H. Peterson
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.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Blow
Dust
Eugene H. Peterson
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.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Christian
Liars
Thinking
Eugene H. Peterson
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Tourists
Pilgrim
Eugene H. Peterson
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.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Doubters
Performers
Persons
Eugene H. Peterson
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Overflow
Eugene H. Peterson
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.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Jobs
Opportunity
Weather
Eugene H. Peterson
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.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Christian
Adventure
Mean
Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer
Refusal
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.
― Eugene H. Peterson
God
Religious
Leaving
Eugene H. Peterson
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.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Watches
Eugene H. Peterson
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.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Spiritual
Jesus
Tired
Eugene H. Peterson
Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Christian
Jesus
Father
Eugene H. Peterson
The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
― Eugene H. Peterson
Christian
Grace
Eugene H. Peterson
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