Eugene Peterson

“Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our…

— Eugene Peterson

“Speaking to people does not have the same personal intensity as listening to them. The question I put to myself is not…

— Eugene Peterson

“... The witness is frequent and insistent that God is inherently relational and personal. So God cannot be either received or understood…

— Eugene Peterson

“Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right…

— Eugene Peterson

“Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order…

— Eugene Peterson

“It is difficult to recapture… the incongruity of a person self-designated as Son of Man, hanging pierced and bleeding on a cross.…

— Eugene Peterson

“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best,…

— Eugene Peterson

“The pastoral vocation in America is embarrassingly banal. It is banal because it is pursued under the canons of job efficiency and…

— Eugene Peterson

“The Christian gospel is rooted in langauge: God spoke a creation into being; our Savrior was the Word made flesh. The poet…

— Eugene Peterson

“[In Revelation 10, John] eats the book—not just reads it—he got it into his nerve endings, his reflexes, his imagination. The book…

— Eugene Peterson

“American religion is conspicuous for its messianically pretentious energy, its embarassingly banal prose, and its impatiently hustling ambition.”

— Eugene Peterson

“[Jesus] said “Follow me” and ended up with a lot of losers. And these losers ended up, through no virtue or talent…

— Eugene Peterson