Eugene H. Peterson

Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.

— Eugene H. Peterson

“All theology is rooted in geography.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“I’m bankrupt without love.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.

— Eugene H. Peterson

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

— Eugene H. Peterson

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

— Eugene H. Peterson

“There is a large, leisurely center to existence where God must be deeply pondered, lovingly believed.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

— Eugene H. Peterson

“If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

— Eugene H. Peterson

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a…

— Eugene H. Peterson

The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we…

— Eugene H. Peterson

A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Go figure out what this Scripture means: ‘I’m after mercy, not religion.’ I’m here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“The commonest forms of devil-inspired worship do not take place furtively at black masses with decapitated cats but flourish under the bright…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“If vocational holiness is to be anything more than a pious wish, pastors must dive to the ocean depths of prayer.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily--open myself…

— Eugene H. Peterson

The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“I tell you, love your enemies. Help and give without expecting a return. You’ll never — I promise — regret it. Live…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Not that the study is not important. A Jewish rabbi I once studies with would often say, 'For us Jews studying the…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus:…

— Eugene H. Peterson

There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language,…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“No text can be understood out of its entire context. The most "entire" context is Jesus. Every biblical text must be read…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Isn't it odd that pastors, who are responsible for interpreting the Scriptures, so much of which come in the form of poetry…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“When men and women get their hands on religion, one of the first things they often do is turn it into an…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“You seem disappointed that I am not more responsive to your interest in "spiritual direction". Actually, I am more than a little…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Magic and faith have one thing in common: they both deal with the supernatural. But everything else is different, for magic is…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Sabbath is the time set aside to do nothing so that we can receive everything, to set aside our anxious attempts to…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Door: So spiritual direction is a slow process that looks idle and inefficient. Peterson: It's subversive. I'm a subversive, really. I gather…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“The pastoral task with words is not communication but communion - the healing and restoration and creation of love relationships between God…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“In every generation there are men and women who pretend to be able to instruct us in a way of life that…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of-GOD, insight into life from knowing a Holy God.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“The pastoral itch to be where “the action is” should be resisted.”

— Eugene H. Peterson