More Quotes by 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.
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.
You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
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.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
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.
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.
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
