““... The witness is frequent and insistent that God is inherently relational and personal. So God cannot be either received or understood apart from our being personal and realtional as well. That most emphatically excludes the detached intellect as a way of knowing God. It excludes programmatic work as a way of knowing God. It excludes cultivation of the ecstatic and visionary as a way of knowing God. God is not an abstract idea that can be mastered, not an impersonal force that can be used, not a private experience that can be indulged." Eugene Peterson, "Living the Resurrection" (106).””
![“[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)
