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More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
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.
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
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).
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.
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.
The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
