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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
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.
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. We think that if we don’t feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different: that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting. Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
