“Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life in Christ; it is what comes to us when we are walking in the way… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions,… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“Speaking to people does not have the same personal intensity as listening to them. The question I put to myself is not 'How many… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“... The witness is frequent and insistent that God is inherently relational and personal. So God cannot be either received or understood apart from our being personal and realtional as well. That most emphatically excludes the detached intellect as a way of knowing God. It excludes programmatic work as a way of knowing God. It excludes cultivation of the ecstatic… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share
“Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to recapture… the incongruity of a person self-designated as Son of Man, hanging pierced and bleeding on a cross. The incongruity… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals;… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“The pastoral vocation in America is embarrassingly banal. It is banal because it is pursued under the canons of job efficiency and career management.… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“The Christian gospel is rooted in langauge: God spoke a creation into being; our Savrior was the Word made flesh. The poet is the… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“[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… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“American religion is conspicuous for its messianically pretentious energy, its embarassingly banal prose, and its impatiently hustling ambition.” — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“[Jesus] said “Follow me” and ended up with a lot of losers. And these losers ended up, through no virtue or talent of their… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
![“[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/quotes/img-quotes/ebe/eugene-peterson-38215_books_in-revelation-10-john-eats-the-book-not_2187312.jpg)
![“[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/quotes/img-quotes/976/eugene-peterson-38215_quote_jesus-said-follow-me-and-ended-up-with-a_3023920.jpg)