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No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Eugene H. Peterson
Age: 85 †
Born: 1932
Born: November 6
Died: 2018
Died: October 22
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Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
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Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.
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Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.
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Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
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There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.
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It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.
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The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.
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Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
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Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
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Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
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Love is not a word that describes my feelings it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.
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We cannot be too careful about the words we use we start out using them and they end up using us.
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The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.
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If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
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When you are part of a megachurch you have no responsibility to anybody else.
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The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.
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All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
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