Best quotes by Eugene H. Peterson on Life

Checkout quotes by Eugene H. Peterson on Life

  • 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.
    - Eugene H. Peterson
  • The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.
    - Eugene H. Peterson
  • One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
    - Eugene H. Peterson
  • That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
    - Eugene H. Peterson
  • Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
    - Eugene H. Peterson