282 Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson

Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren’t bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong” is the warning posted by H. L. Mencken.

I believe God takes the things in our lives – family, background, education – and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don’t think God wastes anything.

Self is the soul minus God.

Reading is a gift, but only if the words are taken into the soul – eaten, chewed, gnawed, received in unhurried delight.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God’s business.

Jesus wasn’t so much handing out information as reshaping our imaginations.

Hope commits us to actions that connect with God’s promises. What we call hoping is often only wishing. We want things we think are impossible, but we have better sense than to spend any money or commit our lives to them. Biblical hope, though, is an act – like buying a field in Anathoth. Hope acts on the conviction that God will complete the work that he has begun even when the appearances, especially when the appearances, oppose it.

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.