282 Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson

My uncle Ernie didn't believe in God.At least that's what he said. But he alwaysWent to church on Christmas. Which I thoughtSeriously compromised his atheism.

The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.

Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.

Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.

Jesus didn't debase the holy into the secular; He infused the secular with the holy.

There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.

We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.

I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.