Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.

Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and celebrated like the sudden meeting of friends, exciting and worthwhile though that is, but thought through and relished, planned and prepared -- an ultimately better way for the relationship to grow and at the same time a way of demonstrating what the relationship is all about.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship.

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

Religion that is contained only within a church building is a weekend hobby, not a personal faith.

Worship isn't an event to attend & watch. It's a lifestyle to be lived.

I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.

Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

Worship God. It’s easier than thinking.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.

Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.

When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship

The purpose of good works isn't to change us or save us; rather, it's the demonstration of the change within us.

Worship is an endeavor to bring to God that which costs you something.

Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.

If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!