Jacob Sweeney

“Every true gospel vocation is a resurrection vocation that arrives after a passage through the belly of the fish. All “word of God” vocations are thus formed. There can be no authentic vocation that is not shaped by passage through some such interior.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant an Exploration in Vocational Holiness

“Thus I have come to think that the fourth commandment on sabbath is the most difficult and most urgent of the commandments in our society, because it summons us to intent and conduct that defies the most elemental requirements of a commodity-propelled society that specializes in control and entertainment, bread and circuses … along with anxiety and violence.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now

“The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way

“My identity does not begin when I begin to understand myself. There is something previous to what I think about myself, and it is what God thinks of me. That means that everything I think and feel is by nature a response, and the one to whom I respond is God. I never speak the first word. I never make the first move.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best