Quotes by : Eugene H. Peterson

We cannot be too careful about the words we use we start out using them and they end up using us.

Pastors enter congregations vocationally in order to embrace the totality of human life in Jesus' name.....

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing....

Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while....

When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness....

Money and machines anesthetize neediness. They put us in charge, in control. As long as the money holds....

Liturgy puts us to work along with all the others who have been and are being put to work in the world....

Somehow we American pastors, without really noticing what was happening, got our vocations redefined....

We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating....

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson