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

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Distance, Space, Enough

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GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

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Book, Heart, Eye

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To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).

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Jesus, Character, Mean

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

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Inspirational, Life, God

Eugene H. Peterson (2006). “God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

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God, Lying, Silence

Eugene H. Peterson (1993). “Where Your Treasure Is: Psalms that Summon You from Self to Community”, p.93, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.

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Running, Sloth, Trying

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The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

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Funeral, Stories, Records

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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.

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Spiritual, And Love, Losing

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We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

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Use, Ends, Careful

Eugene H. Peterson (2008). “Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology”, p.54, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.

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Air, People, Glimpse

Eugene H. Peterson (2006). “God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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.

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Plot, Stories, Scripture

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Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

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Faith, Religious, Pain

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It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

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Spiritual, Companionship, Easier

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Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.

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Prayer

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The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

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Religious, Entrepreneur, Strategy

"The Pastor: A Memoir". Book by Eugene H. Peterson, 2011.

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Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

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Life Changing, Suffering, Pity

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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.

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Mother, Prayer, Real

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Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.

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Love, Feelings, Acting

Eugene H. Peterson (2006). “God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.

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Jesus, Art, People

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People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

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People, Mystery, Problem

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I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

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Teaching, Thinking, Giving

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There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.

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People, Way, Firsts

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A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

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Grace, World, Way

Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.25, InterVarsity Press

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Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge!

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Father, Squares, Heaven

Eugene H. Peterson, Jim Lyster, John Sharon, Peter Santucci (1997). “Subversive Spirituality”, p.263, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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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.

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Christian, Church, Problem

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