Eugene H. Peterson: Living

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“When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.”

Eugene H. Peterson

“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.”

Eugene H. Peterson

“I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.”

Eugene H. Peterson

Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

“The puzzle is why so many people live so badly. Not so wickedly, but so inanely. Not so cruelly, but so stupidly. There is little to admire and less to imitate in the people who are prominent in our culture. We have celebrities but not saints. Famous entertainers amuse a nation of bored insomniacs. Infamous criminals act out the aggressions of timid conformists. Petulant and spoiled athletes play games vicariously for lazy and apathetic spectators. People, aimless and bored, amuse themselves with trivia and trash. Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of justice gets headlines.”

Eugene H. Peterson

Living the Message: Daily Reflections with Eugene H. Peterson (1996), p. 114