Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

Eugene H. Peterson

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• Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • God
  • Mess

• 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.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Great
  • God
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• 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.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • God
  • inspirational

• God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Now
  • Last

• I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the thought that you have to sacrifice being cool to believe in God.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • God
  • Adventure

• Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Trust
  • Dry

• 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.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Light

• Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • God
  • Goals
  • Beyond

• If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • God

• 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.

  

  Ram Dass
  • God
  • Model

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • God

• 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.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • God
  • Friends
  • Taken

• 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.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • God
  • Christian

• 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?

  

  Jim Wallis
  • God
  • History
  • Reflection

• If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'

  

  Mary Astell
  • God
  • Women

• Themistocles said that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can be shown only by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

  

  Plutarch
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Lost

• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• Dr. King was also radical in his beliefs about violence. He learned how to successfully fight hatred and violence with the unstoppable power of nonviolence.He once stopped an armed mob, saying: 'We are not advocating violence. We want to love our enemies. I want you to love our enemies. Be good to them. This is what we live by. We must meet hate with love.'

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • Good
  • Live
  • Power

• There's various scenarios and interpretations about that urgency. I think first we have to get the facts. There are too many interpretations of the facts, and those scenarios could change based on the variables incorporated in those projections.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Interpretation
  • Urgency
  • Scenario

• Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Worship
  • Appetite