THE PERMANENCE OF GOD'S LOVE

'Everything in this life is going to be taken away from us, except one thing: God's love which can go into death with us and take us through it and into His hands.'

Timothy Keller, On Death, p.26. 

PRAYER IS ENGAGING GOD

'Some of us are taught to think that reading the Bible means sitting in God's classroom and that prayer is politely raising our hand when we have a question about what he is teaching us in his Deuteronomy lecture. The Psalms, our prayer text within the biblical text, show us something quite different: prayer is engaging God, an engaging that is seldom accomplished by a murmured greeting and a conventional handshake. The engagement, at least in its initial stages, is more like a quarrel that a greeting, more like a wrestling match than a warm embrace.'

Eugene H Peterson, Eat this Book, p.104.

THE WHOLE BIBLE CONTEXT TO EVERY BIBLE VERSE

'It takes the whole Bible to read any part of the Bible.'
Eugene H Peterson, Eat this Book, p.48.

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS A STORY

'The Christian life is conducted in story conditions. The Bible is basically and overall a narrative - an immense, sprawling, capacious narrative.'

Eugene H Peterson, Eat this Book, p.40.

GOOD LANGUAGE CREATES

'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.'

Eugene H Peterson, Eat this Book: a conversation in the art of spiritual reading, p.24.