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List of Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 99 inspiring quotes by Eugene H. Peterson.

About Eugene H. Peterson

  • Born: November 6, 1932
  • Occupation: Author
    • You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. in making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
    Religious Sound Speech
    Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading scriptures rightly. its just ordinary stuff.
    Reading Years Two
    There is something about christmas that requires a rug rat. little kids make christmas fun. i wonder if could rent one for the holidays. when i was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations.
    Fun Real Drinking
    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.
    Humanity Unity Behaviour
    I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship god, to listen to his word, to offer themselves to god.
    Worship Failing Congregation
    The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. and of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
    Roles Individual Abstract
    The spirit works through community. somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. that's okay. the point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.
    Stupid Errors Ideas
    I didn't write because i had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
    Teaching Writing Order
    Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.
    Sloth Sin Pastor
    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.
    Kicking Attention Want
    Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. count yourself lucky - god holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from him.
    Lucky Fresh Start Clean
    Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [it] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.
    Attitude Reality Emotional
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