Eugene Peterson Quotes

Everyone has choices to make. The choices are not trial-and error guesses; they are informed by the commands of God.

Our lives are not puzzles to be figured out. Rather we come to God who knows us and reveals to us the truth of our lives. The fundamemntal mistake is to begin with ourselves and not God.

If we live in hope we go against the stream.

There is an enormous gap between what we think we can do and what God calls us to do. Our ideas of what we can do or want to do are trivial; God's ideas are grand.

Every act of love is a risk of the self.

Hoping is not dreaming...It means a confident alert expectation that God will do what he said he will do.

Following Jesus means not following your impulses and appetites and whims and dreams, all of which are sufficiently damaged by sin to make them unreliable guides for getting anyplace worth going.

Obiedience is not a stodgy plodding in the ruts of religion, it is a hopeful race toward God's promises.Nothing counts more in the wat we live than what we believe about God

We live in a culture where image is everything and substance nothing....But an image without substance is a lie.

No one can substitute for me. No one can replace me. Before I was good for anything, God decided that I was good for what he was doing.