Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

Eugene H. Peterson

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• Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Together
  • Suffering

• People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

  

  Otto Dix
  • People
  • War
  • Fear

• The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.

  

  Patanjali
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Self

• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Suffering
  • Grief
  • Disease

• Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Fate

• Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Country
  • America

• I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.

  

  James Rothman
  • Happy
  • Suffering

• His work isn't all glower. Even though he hasn't smiled in a movie since the underrated 'Proof' in the early 1990s, Mr. Crowe is given to a hurt swallow when he's uncomfortable and to a look of suffering in his eyes.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Eyes

• The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

  

  Armistead Maupin
  • Up
  • Live
  • City

• It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

  

  Kathe Kollwitz
  • Men
  • High
  • Suffering

• Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

  

  Bernard Lagat
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Suffering

• Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

  

  Jim Caviezel
  • Suffering

• Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.

  

  Fred Thompson
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Wonder

• Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.

  

  John Tavener
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Community
  • Jesus
  • Suffering

• There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Fighting
  • Suffering

• Rebellion, revolution don't need dollars They need this instead Imagination, suffering, light and love And care for every human being You never steal, you never kill You are a part of hope and life The revolution goes from man to man And heart to heart And I sense when I look at the stars That we are children of life Death is small

  

  Joan Baez
  • Life
  • Children
  • Heart

• Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Country
  • Together
  • Generation

• The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Virtue
  • Acts
  • Exertion

• Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • Money
  • Brain

• Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Vision

• Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Suffering
  • Vultures
  • Fixers