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 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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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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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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One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.
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God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.
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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.
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The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.
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I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.
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I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
