Eugene H. Peterson
Eugene H. Peterson
Eugene H. Petersonis an American-born clergyman, scholar, author, and poet. He has written over thirty books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, a paraphrase of the Bible...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth6 November 1932
CountryUnited States of America
Eugene H. Peterson quotes about
prayer refusal
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
scripture plot stories
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
christian grace way
The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
creative genius stories
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.
luxury numbers people
Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way...
spiritual companionship easier
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.
overflow lives-of-others
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
stories hospitality
Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
faith religious pain
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
funeral stories records
The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.
running trying lives-of-others
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
jesus expectations engagement
It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.
latin humble humility
The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.
life-changing suffering pity
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.