C.J. Peterson Quotes

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

Whether the gods are inside or outside makes very little difference to whether there are gods.

The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks.

How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.

Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet.

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.

The most effective way to win people to Jesus is to treat them the way Jesus would day in and day out.

Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place.

Perhaps this is what it was all about. Leaning on God when life made no sense, as well as when the answers seem clear.

Let nature be in your yard.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.

Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.

Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown.

Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.

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.

Prayer is the key ingredient of the church. The enemy hates it when we pray.

The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.

Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.

The prophetic word was never meant to be a trophy. It was meant to be a weapon.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

I remember my mistakes more than my success.

It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

It is funny you know, you spend 12 years of your life learning about things and about life, but they never really tell you how hard life really is.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

Imagination is the spark that ignites the fire of creativity.

Praying is the most important thing you will do on any day