More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
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
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
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.
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.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
