Eugene H. Peterson Way Quotations

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.

Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.

The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced

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.