Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.
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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
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Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything-gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness-rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.
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I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to bring Peter Morgan's Princess Elizabeth to life; she is a gift of a role and a challenge I am so grateful for - a young woman trying to navigate a path through an extraordinary situation.
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'The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.
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I travel a lot, so I know that it's important to have people in your life to keep you ground.
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I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.
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When I get married, it will be for life - divorce is not an option.
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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
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My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.
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If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.
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We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.
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Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.
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The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act.
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If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself.
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I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
