Eugene H. Peterson

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“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

I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is…

— Eugene H. Peterson

There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?”

— Eugene H. Peterson

The gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“When besieged, I’m calm as a baby. When all hell breaks loose, I’m collected and cool.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“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

“The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“(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

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

— Eugene H. Peterson

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

Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that…

— Eugene H. Peterson

People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another.…

— Eugene H. Peterson

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

“Maturity requires the integration, not the amputation, of what we have received through our conception and birth, our infancy and schooling.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

When you are part of a megachurch, you have no responsibility to anybody else.

— Eugene H. Peterson

“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

I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling.…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“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

“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

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

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Left to ourselves we turn God into an object, something we can deal with, some thing we can use to our benefit,…

— Eugene H. Peterson