More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
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.
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.
The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
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.
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
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 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.
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
