I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention. Eugene H. Peterson More Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson More Quotes From Eugene H. Peterson There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going. Eugene H. Peterson beginners experts jesus No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others. Eugene H. Peterson lives-of-others overflow Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests. Eugene H. Peterson want-something risk prayer To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22). Eugene H. Peterson character mean jesus When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. Eugene H. Peterson scripture plot stories Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite. Eugene H. Peterson hunger worship doe GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes. Eugene H. Peterson eye heart book You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives. Eugene H. Peterson generous shining light The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced Eugene H. Peterson and-love grace christian That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love. Eugene H. Peterson and-love losing spiritual The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it. Eugene H. Peterson pain hard-work disappointment Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things. Eugene H. Peterson sloth running trying Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions. Eugene H. Peterson tasks waiting mean Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds. Eugene H. Peterson religious sex jesus Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way. Eugene H. Peterson luxury numbers people A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace. Eugene H. Peterson grace way world The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans. Eugene H. Peterson strategy entrepreneur religious Prayer gets us in on what God is doing. Eugene H. Peterson prayer American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have. Eugene H. Peterson christian culture lying Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life. Eugene H. Peterson brother spiritual christian
