Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything about it. Then the liar isn't sure which lies are compromised.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.