About Eugene Peterson
American translator... | Eugene Hoiland Peterson was an American Presbyterian minister, scholar, theologian, author, and poet. He wrote more than 30 books, including the Gold Medallion Book Award–winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, an idiomatic paraphrasing commentary and translation of the Bible into mo
![“[Jesus] said “Follow me” and ended up with a lot of losers. And these losers ended up, through no virtue or talent of their own, becoming saints. Jesus wasn’t after the best but the worst.” quote by Eugene Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/976/eugene-peterson-38215_losers_jesus-said-follow-me-and-ended-up-with-a_3023920.jpg)
![“[In Revelation 10, John] eats the book—not just reads it—he got it into his nerve endings, his reflexes, his imagination. The book he ate was the Holy Scripture. Assimilated into his worship and prayer, his imagining and writing, the book he ate was metabolized into the book he wrote.” quote by Eugene Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ebe/eugene-peterson-38215_books_in-revelation-10-john-eats-the-book-not_2187312.jpg)
