Famous Eugene H Peterson Quotes
You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.– Eugene H Peterson
Isn’t it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?– Eugene H Peterson
We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human.– Eugene H Peterson
There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.– Eugene H Peterson
Preaching reveals God in action here and now — for ME.– Eugene H Peterson
Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.– Eugene H Peterson
Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.– Eugene H Peterson
The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.– Eugene H Peterson
The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot– Eugene H Peterson