Amy Peterson > Quotes

“The disciples, the writers of the Gospels, Paul himself would never be able to conceive of a world or society like America where (mostly White) Christians owned so many businesses, homes, wealth, institutions, and held the highest levels of power in government. We might be considered freaks in a different regard. We might be seen as the most preposterous of all: the people with power constantly stoking the fear that we will loose it, claiming the blessing of a Savior who urged us to do just that.”
― Amy Peterson, Where Goodness Still Grows: Reclaiming Virtue in an Age of Hypocrisy

“It occurs to me now that obsessing over my own failures and what-might-have-beens is a way of creating my own altar, a bamah to me, a high place where I worship myself as the ultimate sovereign, responsible for whatever happens, good or bad.”
― Amy Peterson, Dangerous Territory: An Inquiry into Everything I Thought I Knew about Faith, Love, and Saving the World

“I too felt words had been stripped from me that summer. I had thought that I spoke faith as my first language, but as I encountered my first spiritual crisis, I found that I had no words at all. Instead of prayer, or even tears or keening cries, my first language seemed to be silence.”
― Amy Peterson, Dangerous Territory: An Inquiry into Everything I Thought I Knew about Faith, Love, and Saving the World

“My prayers, launched like arrows, hit a blue bowl of sky, splintered, and lay in shards around my feet. I lay down and slept under the broom tree with Elijah.”
― Amy Peterson, Dangerous Territory: An Inquiry into Everything I Thought I Knew about Faith, Love, and Saving the World

“Don't go out of guilt or desire to achieve. Don't go because you want to be one of heaven's heroes. Don't go to save the word--go because you want to learn to love it. Go because you know that you are loved.”
― Amy Peterson, Dangerous Territory: An Inquiry into Everything I Thought I Knew about Faith, Love, and Saving the World