Eugene H. Peterson Quotes About Worship

Quotes about: Worship

• Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  God, Christian, Expression

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.54, InterVarsity Press

• Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Doe, Worship, Hunger

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.56, InterVarsity Press

• Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. We think that if we don’t feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different: that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting. Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Liars, Thinking

• Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I'm always in danger of losing my grip on reality. The reality, of course, is that God is sovereign and Christ is savior. The reality is that prayer is my mother tongue and the eucharist my basic food. The reality is that baptism, not Myers-Briggs, defines who I am.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Mother, Prayer, Real

• 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

  Sunday, Imagination, Important

• I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Worship, Failing, Congregation

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