Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson

There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.