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Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Conditions
Eugene H. Peterson
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Jobs
People
Grace
Eugene H. Peterson
This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of Israel and Jesus, the story of Jesus and the stories that Jesus told. We let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that Jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the Jesus way.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Morning
Jesus
Israel
Eugene H. Peterson
There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Jesus
Experts
Beginners
Eugene H. Peterson
The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Jesus
Godly
Reflection
Eugene H. Peterson
You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Light
Shining
Generous
Eugene H. Peterson
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Mean
Waiting
Tasks
Eugene H. Peterson
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
God
Christian
Expression
Eugene H. Peterson
The gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's always a truth in specific. The gospel is never a commentary on ideas or cultures or conditions; it's always about actual persons, actual pains, actual troubles, actual sin; you, me; who you are and what you've done; who I am and what I've done.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Pain
Ideas
Eugene H. Peterson
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer
Risk
Eugene H. Peterson
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.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Pain
Disappointment
Eugene H. Peterson
Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Running
Sloth
Trying
Eugene H. Peterson
GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Book
Heart
Eye
Eugene H. Peterson
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
― Eugene H. Peterson
God
Lying
Silence
Eugene H. Peterson
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.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Funeral
Stories
Records
Eugene H. Peterson
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Use
Ends
Careful
Eugene H. Peterson
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.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Spiritual
Losing
Eugene H. Peterson
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Distance
Space
Enough
Eugene H. Peterson
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Doe
Worship
Hunger
Eugene H. Peterson
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
― Eugene H. Peterson
Inspirational
Life
God
Eugene H. Peterson
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