Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

Eugene H. Peterson

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• If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Creation
  • Sabbath
  • Attentiveness