Eugene H. Peterson Quotes About Sabbath

Quotes about: Sabbath

• Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Distance, Space, Enough

• If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  One Day, Watches, Too Much

• "Sabbath is not primarily about us or how it benefits us; it is about God, and how God forms us. It is not, in the first place, about what we do or don't do; it is about God - completing and resting and blessing and sanctifying. These are all things that we don't know much about......But it does mean stopping and being quiet long enough to see - open-mouthed - with wonder - resurrection wonder.....we cultivate the "fear of the Lord". Our souls are formed by what we cannot work up or take charge of. We respond and enter into what the resurrection of Jesus continues to do."

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Mean, Blessing

  Eugene H. Peterson (2008). “Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology”, p.150, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• 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

  Ordinary, Creation, Sabbath

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