Eugene H Peterson Inspirational Quotes (54)

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff.

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.