Quotes by : Eugene H. Peterson

Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything....

The task of liturgy is to order the life of the holy community following the text of Holy Scripture.....

Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective....

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....

Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided,....

But sooner or later we find that not everything is to our liking in this book. It starts out sweet to....

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's....

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their....

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable....