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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
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.
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.
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
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.
There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
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.
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
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.
