Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

I serve a major God who definitely has the last say on my life.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.

You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.

We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.

Look up on high, and thank the God of all.

But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.

The determinations of Providence are always wise, often inscrutable; and, though its decrees appear to bear hard upon us at times, is nevertheless meant for gracious purposes.

I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the victory of the Movement if it had the intention after all to destroy us at the end.

There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had to have been placed in its orbit centuries before in a trajectory that would make it appear at that special moment of time to announce the birth of a special child. Just as there is divine design in the universe, so each of us has been placed in our own orbits in this life to love, to serve, to help light the world.