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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
