“There is a large, leisurely center to existence where God must be deeply pondered, lovingly believed.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of-GOD, insight into life from knowing a Holy God.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“At day’s end I’m ready for sound sleep, For you, GOD, have put my life back together.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“the Bible, all of it, is livable; it is the text for living our lives. It reveals a God-created, God-ordered, God-blessed world… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“To live only for some future goals is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“When people realize it is the living God you are presenting and not some idol that makes them feel good, they are… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides.… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“When I look for help in developing my pastoral craft and nurturing my pastoral vocation, the one century that has the least… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The core message of the gospel is that God invades us with new life, but the setting for this is most often… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The Holy Scriptures are story-shaped. Reality is story-shaped. The world is story-shaped. Our lives are story-shaped. 'I had always,' wrote G.K. Chesterton… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The task of liturgy is to order the life of the holy community following the text of Holy Scripture. It consists of… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 29, "Write in a Book What You See') "The phrase that gave us focus was 'a long obedience in the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The Christian life is the lifelong practice of attending to the details of congruence—congruence between ends and means, congruence between what we… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Forget about deciding what’s right for each other. Here’s what you need to be concerned about: that you don’t get in the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The gospel doesn't impose a way of life on us from without and tell us that we have to live up to… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“I was astonished to learn in one of these best-selling books (on church life) that the size of my church parking lot… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Obedience is the thing, living in active response to the living God. The most important question we ask of this text is… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Jesus prevents us from thinking that life is a matter of ideas to ponder or concepts to discuss. Jesus saves us from… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Liturgy is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Forget about deciding what’s right for each other. Here’s what you need to be concerned about: that you don’t get in the way of… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The core message of the gospel is that God invades us with new life, but the setting for this is most often in the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Liturgy puts us to work along with all the others who have been and are being put to work in the world by and… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“At day’s end I’m ready for sound sleep, For you, GOD, have put my life back together.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“When I look for help in developing my pastoral craft and nurturing my pastoral vocation, the one century that has the least to commend… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
