Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.

Eugene H. Peterson

• God Is
• Charge
• Sabbath

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• If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God Is
  • Charge
  • Sabbath