Quotes from Eugene Peterson

As silver in a crucible and gold in a pan, so our lives are assayed by GOD.

The way of faith is not a fad that is taken up in one century only to be discarded in the next. It lasts. It is a way that works. It has been tested thoroughly.

What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?

The plows of persecution aren't working, and the oxherds haven't even noticed! They plod back and forth, unaware that their opposition is worthless.

God-the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

The terrible threat against life, he said in his book God Is Not Yet Dead, is not death, nor pain, nor any variation on the disasters that we so obsessively try to protect ourselves against with our social systems and personal stratagems. The terrible threat is "that we might die earlier than we really do die, before death has become a natural necessity. The real horror lies in just such a premature death, a death after which we go on living for many years."

Better to meet a grizzly robbed of her cubs than a fool hellbent on folly.

Perseverance does not mean "perfection." It means that we keep going. We do not quit when we find that we are not yet mature and there is a long journey still before us.

Teaching resurrects dead words so they live again.

The central reality for Christians is the personal, unalterable, persevering commitment God makes to us. Perseverance is not the result of our determination, it is the result of God's faithfulness.

When you grab all you can get, that's what happens: the more you get, the less you are.

Mercy to the needy is a loan to God, and God pays back those loans in full.