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
teaching writing order
I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
blue nudge-nudge people
That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
sloth sin pastor
Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.
use ends careful
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
attitude reality emotional
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.
growing-up maturity church
Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.
prayer
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
roles individual abstract
The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
christian church problem
There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.
religious pride opportunity
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.
tasks smooth prophet
The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.
lucky fresh-start clean
Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him.
humanity unity behaviour
The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.
adventure goodness pursuit
Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.