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Life Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson

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Ordinary moments become the stage for new life, Peterson notes, where God’s grace shows up in everyday routines. He reminds pastors not to block others’ paths and to keep belief and behavior united, so faith stays real. When we recognize the living God rather than an idol, our daily walk feels more genuine.

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I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

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“It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.”

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

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“Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts.”

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

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

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The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced

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

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“I was astonished to learn in one of these best-selling books (on church life) that the size of my church parking lot…

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

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

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

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

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That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your…

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“The gospel doesn't impose a way of life on us from without and tell us that we have to live up to…

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One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which…

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The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless…

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“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party…

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“So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides.…

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Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in…

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GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me…

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“When people realize it is the living God you are presenting and not some idol that makes them feel good, they are…

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The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that…

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“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…

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This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda…

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“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…

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“Jesus prevents us from thinking that life is a matter of ideas to ponder or concepts to discuss. Jesus saves us from…

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

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“Liturgy is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as…

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“The task of liturgy is to order the life of the holy community following the text of Holy Scripture. It consists of…

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“(from chapter 29, "Write in a Book What You See') "The phrase that gave us focus was 'a long obedience in the…

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

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“At day’s end I’m ready for sound sleep, For you, GOD, have put my life back together.”

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“To live only for some future goals is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's…

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If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring…

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“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…

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“The Christian life is the lifelong practice of attending to the details of congruence—congruence between ends and means, congruence between what we…

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“The core message of the gospel is that God invades us with new life, but the setting for this is most often…

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“When I look for help in developing my pastoral craft and nurturing my pastoral vocation, the one century that has the least…

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“Obedience is the thing, living in active response to the living God. The most important question we ask of this text is…

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You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

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