Best 3 quotes of Eugene Peterson on MyQuotes

Hoping is not dreaming. It is not spinning an illusion or fantasy to protect us from our boredom or our pain...it is imagination put in the harness of faith.

It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals; and revelation is always formative - we don't know more, we become more. Our best users of language, poets and lovers and children and saints, use words to make - make intimacies, make character, make beauty, make goodness, make truth.

Speaking to people does not have the same personal intensity as listening to them. The question I put to myself is not 'How many people have you spoken to about Christ this week?' but 'How many people have you listened to in Christ this week?