Quotes from Eugene Peterson
The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.
- Eugene Peterson
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.
- Eugene Peterson
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
- Eugene Peterson
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
- Eugene Peterson
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
- Eugene Peterson
Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
- Eugene Peterson
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
- Eugene Peterson
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
- Eugene Peterson
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.
- Eugene Peterson
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 Peterson
The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.
- Eugene Peterson
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
- Eugene Peterson