Peterson quotes from Subversive Spirituality

We percieve reality from the vantage point of God's saving work, and not from the morass of the desprate muddle. We acquire hope.

Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.

If uwary, the person providing care is co-opted into feeding selfishness, which is to say, sin. (158)

The prime need of the church is not men of mercy nor men of brains, but men of prayer.--EM BOUNDS

Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.

If we do not use these occasions of need to teach people to pray, we cave in to the pressures of care in which there is no cure. (161)