Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often … - Eugene H. Peterson

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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Eugene H. Peterson

Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

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The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

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The Latin words humus, soil
earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble. ' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.

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Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

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