Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Quotes - Eugene peterson

 I love Eugene Peterson's A Long Obedience in the Same Direction. It is a balm, a kick, a nudge, a lesson, counsel, conversation, realistic, hopeful, and profoundly biblical and beautiful. As he walks through the Psalms of ascent the reader is drawn into worship and closer to God. Here are 40 of the best quotes from it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/barnabaspiper/p/the-best-quotes-from-eugene-petersons?r=43vew&utm_medium=ios


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.

Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire to experience life in Christ; it is what comes to us when we are walking in the way of faith and obedience.

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