““The Christian gospel is rooted in langauge: God spoke a creation into being; our Savrior was the Word made flesh. The poet is the person who uses words not primarily to convey information but to make a relationship, shape beauty, form truth… Isn’t it odd that pastors, who are responsible for interpreting the Scriptures, so much of which come in the form of poetry, have so little interest in poetry? … Words create. God’s word creates; our words can participate in creation.” ””
![“[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)
