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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
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.
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
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
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.
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.
