Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Eugene H. Peterson
Eugene H. Peterson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.
The cultivation of consumer spirituality is the antithesis of a sacrificial, "deny yourself" congregation.
Jesus is the descent of God to our lives, just as they are, not the ascent of our lives to God, hoping he might approve when he sees how hard we try.
I am trying to teach my mind to bear the long, slow growth of the fields, and to sing of its passing while it waits.
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Prayer consists in the transformation of what we do in the name of Jesus to what Holy Spirit does in us as we follow Jesus.
The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.
I want to develop discernments that say an unapologetic "no" to ways that violate the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.
There is a large, leisurely center to existence where God must be deeply pondered, lovingly believed.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.
You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.
We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.
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.
We live most days and most of the hours of those days in a world permeated with the making and purchasing of idols.
The power that the world acknowledges comes out of the mouth of a gun; the power that the person of faith respects comes from the mouth of Christ.
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.
Our God! GOD the one and only! Love GOD, your God with your whole heart: love him with all that's in you, love him with all you've got!
I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.
A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.
Real life, the real world, is a vast theater of salvation, directed by our wise and totally involved God.
The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren't bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors.
But to those who can't see it yet, everything comes in stories, creating readiness, nudging them toward receptive insight.
There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.
Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.
You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
The huge irony is that the more the gospel is offered in consumer terms, the more the consumers are disappointed.
Writing is not a literary act but spiritual. And pastoring is not managing a religious business but a spiritual quest.
Pastoral work is a commitment to the everyday: it is an act of faith that the great truths of salvation are workable in the ordinary universe.
Congregation is composed of people, who, upon entering a church, leave behind what people on the street name or call them.
The very moment you separate body and spirit, you end up with a corpse. Separate faith and works and you get the same thing: a corpse.
Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.
The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way.