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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
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
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.
