“Christian discipleship is a process of paying more and more attention to God’s righteousness and less and less attention to our own. It is finding the meaning of our lives not be probing our moods and motives and morals but by believing in God’s will and purposes. It is making a map of the faithfulness of God, not charting the rise and fall of our enthusiasms. it is our of such a reality that we acquire perseverance.”
~ Eugene Peterson, “A Long Obedience”