Eugene Peterson Quotes

10 quotes from 10 authors

Eugene Peterson’s writings often turn toward the quiet corners of faith, urging readers to listen to the still small voice within. This selection of 10 quotes captures his gentle challenge to seek spiritual depth over surface belief, making each line a quiet invitation to reflect on the divine in everyday moments.

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“As Eugene Peterson has so well said: “Worship is an act which develops feelings for God, not a feeling for”

R. Kent Hughes

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Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader…

Walter Wangerin

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“JUST A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (A Kind of Preamble) We would very soon become contemptuous of a god whom we could figure…

Rick Lawrence

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Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It…

Philip Yancey

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“Moses dialogues with God, hammers down, gets into relationship with the Almighty: . . . Oh! Teach us to live well! Teach us to…

Jan Karon

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“... The witness is frequent and insistent that God is inherently relational and personal. So God cannot be either received or understood…

Eugene Peterson

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“To help me learn how to practice lectio divina, I’ve enlisted two expert sources. Eugene Peterson opens his book on spiritual reading…

Jana Riess

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“Eugene Peterson has said, “American culture is stubbornly resistant to the way of Jesus.”5 The culture is strongly individualistic; the church is…

Bill Hull

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“In Jewish culture, days begin in the evening with the setting of the sun. (We see this in Genesis 1 with the…

Tish Harrison Warren

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“The Bible assumes that we do not know instinctively how to talk with God but rather need some help with knowing how…

John E. Goldingay

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