“The prayer of David traditionally assigned to this story is Psalm 57. While there are lines in that psalm that convey David's… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 29, "Write In a Book What You See") "heuristic writing - writing to explore and discover what I didn't know.… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Mercy, GOD, mercy!”: the prayer is not an attempt to get God to do what he is unwilling otherwise to do, but… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“And so Psalm 121 says no. It rejects a worship of nature, a religion of stars and flowers, a religion that makes… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. We think that… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship...Worship is an act that develops feelings for… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The pastoral task with words is not communication but communion - the healing and restoration and creation of love relationships between God… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 26, "Emmaus Walks") "[our Quaker retreat leader} warned us against shortcuts [to solve the "badlands"]. he encouraged us to submit… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 20, "Bezalel") "We were getting it: worship was not so much what we did, but what we let God do… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“James 5:16 - The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“If vocational holiness is to be anything more than a pious wish, pastors must dive to the ocean depths of prayer.” — 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
“My primary pastoral work had to do with Scripture and prayer. I was neither capable nor competent to form Christ in another… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Door: So spiritual direction is a slow process that looks idle and inefficient. Peterson: It's subversive. I'm a subversive, really. I gather… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“It is useful to reflect that the word 'liturgy' did not originate in church or worship settings. In the Greek world it… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Christians worshiped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. Feelings are important in many areas but completely… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 20, "Bezalel") "Worship is an art, using the sensory to bring us into an awareness of and attentiveness to the… — 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
