Eugene Peterson: quotes from The Contemplative Pastor

“My job is not to solve people’s problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives. It’s hard to do because our whole culture is going in the other direction, saying that if you’re smart enough and get the right kind of help, you can solve all your problems. … Sometimes I think all I do as a pastor is speak the word ‘God’ in a situation in which it hasn’t been said before, where people haven’t recognised his presence. … There’s a kind of exhilaration because God is doing something and, even in a little way, it’s enough at the moment.”

“Prayer is a subversive activity. It involves a more or less open act of defiance against any claim by the current regime.”

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