Quotes by Eugene Peterson
Eugene Peterson (1932–2018) — Pfarrer, Theologe und Autor · Presbyterianisch · USA
Eugene Peterson (1932–2018) war ein US-amerikanischer presbyterianischer Pfarrer, Theologieprofessor und Autor. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch seine Bibelübertragung „The Message“ in modernes Alltagsenglisch sowie durch Schriften gegen kommerzialisierte und leistungsorientierte Gemeindekonzepte. Bibellesern bietet sein Werk Zugänge zu einer entschleunigten, kontemplativen Schriftbetrachtung, wenngleich seine freie Paraphrasierung des Bibeltextes auch theologische Kritik an der Übersetzungstreue hervorrief.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, Prayer & Silence, Meaning & Identity, Humility & Pride, Love, Discipleship
Quotes by Eugene Peterson
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson
When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.
Eugene Peterson
And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily--open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.
Eugene Peterson
All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
Eugene Peterson
Prayer is a refusal to live as an outsider to my God and my own soul.
Eugene Peterson
Jesus is the descent of God to our lives, just as they are, not the ascent of our lives to God, hoping he might approve when he sees how hard we try.
Eugene Peterson
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't be complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us.
Eugene Peterson
Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
Eugene Peterson
We must pray who we actually are, not who we think we should be.
Eugene Peterson
You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
Eugene Peterson
As aparências enganam: a oração nunca é a primeira palavra, mas sempre a segunda. Deus tem a primeira palavra. A oração é uma fala que responde; ela não é primariamente “petição”, mas “resposta”.
Eugene Peterson
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.
Eugene Peterson
Joy is what God gives, not what we work up. Laughter is the delight that things are working together for good to those who love God, not the giggles that betray the nervousness of a precarious defense system.
Eugene Peterson
Here’s what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.
Eugene Peterson
Prayer is never the first word; it is always it the second word. God has the first word.
Eugene Peterson
Prayer is speech at its most alive. The breath that is breathed into us by God we breathe back to God.
Eugene Peterson
All suffering, all pain, all emptiness, all disappointment is seed: sow it in God and he will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.
Eugene Peterson
Why is everyone hungry for more ? “More, more,” they say. “More, more.” I have GOD’s more-than-enough, More joy in one ordinary day Than they get in all their shopping sprees. At day’s end I’m ready for sound sleep, For you, GOD, have put my life back together.
Eugene Peterson
The Bible is not a textbook. Nor is it a manual to be studied, mastered, and mechanically applied. Instead, I believe we should listen to the Word of God and reflect upon it like poetry till it infiltrates the soul.
Eugene Peterson
The way of Jesus is not a sequence of exceptions to the ordinary, but a way of living deeply and fully with the people here and now, in the place we find ourselves.
Eugene Peterson
We believe that this human life is a great gift, that every part of it is designed by God and therefore means something, that every part of it is blessed by God and therefore to be enjoyed, that every part is accompanied by God and therefore workable.
Eugene Peterson
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
Eugene Peterson
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
Eugene Peterson
Speaking to people does not have the same personal intensity as listening to them. The question I put to myself is not 'How many people have you spoken to about Christ this week?' but 'How many people have you listened to in Christ this week?
Eugene Peterson
Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
Eugene Peterson
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
Eugene Peterson
We underestimate God and we overestimate evil. We don’t see what God is doing and conclude that he is doing nothing. We see everything that evil is doing and think it is in control of everyone.
Eugene Peterson
Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life in Christ; it is what comes to us when we are walking in the way of faith and obedience.
Eugene Peterson
Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren’t bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors.
Eugene Peterson
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
Eugene Peterson
God’s love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks.
Eugene Peterson
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God-it whets our appetite. Our need for God is not taken care of by engaging in worship-it deepens.
Eugene Peterson
The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.
Eugene Peterson
And so we gain hope—not from the darkness of our suffering, not from pat answers in books, but from the God who sees our suffering and shares our pain.
Eugene Peterson
At day’s end I’m ready for sound sleep, For you, GOD, have put my life back together.
Eugene Peterson
When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow – yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.
Eugene Peterson
A theologian takes God seriously, a poet takes words seriously; a pastor takes people seriously.
Eugene Peterson
In Tarshish I can make a career out of religion without having to deal directly with God.
Eugene Peterson
I am busy because I am lazy. I let others decide what I have to do instead of resolutely deciding for myself. C. S. Lewis repeatedly emphasized that only lazy people work hard.
Eugene Peterson
How can I lead people into the quiet place beside the still waters if I am in perpetual motion? How can I persuade a person to live by faith and not by works if I have to juggle my schedule constantly to make everything fit into place?
Eugene Peterson
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