Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.
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Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
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Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.
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Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.
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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
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If you see yourself as God and then you come back from this state and somebody says, 'Hey, Sam, empty the garbage!' it catches you back into the model of 'I'm Sam who empties the garbage.' You can't maintain these new kinds of structures. It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage.
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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
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We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
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I have friends of mine that are actors or singers, and they're the classic guys where, they're onstage, and they're like, 'Okay, the blonde in the third row, seat 24, bring her to my dressing room.' I've never, never taken advantage of that, I swear to God.
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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.
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But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
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Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others.
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'God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.' And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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Er, I can’t confirm or deny, but that’s a good guess.
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
