Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

Only God gives encouragement, not kings.

The Bible is the book I read. It's got answers for everything.

The God who inspired the Bible is the same God who made the universe, Earth, and all life. This God is the very definition of truth; therefore nature's record will never contradict Scripture and vice versa. When a seeming contradiction confronts us, we can know with certainty we have either misunderstood (one, the other, or both revelations) or perhaps we haven't yet dug deploy enough. Whatever the case, we can embrace the opportunity to gain greater knowledge and appreciation for the Bible, for nature, and for the God who is responsible for both.

The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

One reason, of course, as a Christian, I believe the Bible is the word of God. I take the Bible as the standard.

I'm strongly into the Bible; I'm strongly into God and religion.I'm pro-life and different things.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed

This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the most convincing of human experience that has ever been written...and those who heed that story will know their strength and happiness and success are all summed up in the exhortation, "Fear God and keep His commandments."

The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin.

I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life emerged due to random physical processes in an environment which simply happened to have the right properties. As a Christian I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

This nation under God

God is able to do more than man can understand.

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.