Eugene H. Peterson Stories Quotations

When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

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

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.