Famous Eugene H Peterson Quotes

  • Without stories we end up with stereotypes — a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR. – Eugene H Peterson

    Without stories we end up with stereotypes — a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR.– Eugene H Peterson

  • 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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 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

    The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot– Eugene H Peterson