Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.

Eugene H. Peterson

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• Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • God
  • Believe
  • Hope

• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

  

  Daisy Bates
  • Man
  • Way
  • Woman

• An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • Enemies
  • None

• Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • People
  • Country
  • Church

• Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Worship

• I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Day
  • Jesus
  • Stupid

• Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Church

• Jesus, take the wheel.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Jesus

• You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Church
  • Greek

• People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • God
  • Family
  • Purpose

• I think I was about seven years old, and I remember I was at Moffat Road Baptist Church, where I grew up with all my friends and family and probably didn't understand nearly enough, but I knew enough to understand I wanted to be saved and wanted Jesus to be Lord of my life. What an awesome experience.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • Jesus

• The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.

  

  John Eldredge
  • Jesus

• In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

  

  Mark Batterson
  • Past
  • Church
  • Environment

• The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • People
  • Church

• Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart.

  

  Marlon James
  • Church

• About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.

  

  Joan of Arc
  • Church
  • Jesus

• In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Food
  • Church
  • Cold

• With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I am anti-pants.

  

  Lena Dunham

• That solo on "Lord, I'm Discouraged" in terms of notes it isn't anything like it, but in terms of aesthetic, it's direct rip-off from the "November Rain" solo. In fact, when I did it, I imagined myself walking out of a church, walking out onto a cliff and doing a guitar solo. Slash has always been one of my favorites because the guy uses a lot of melody in his solos.

  

  Tad Kubler
  • Guy
  • Church
  • Rain

• The traditional media does not have the kind of reporting muscle on the ground that it used to. I was very hopeful that the new digital media operations would pick up that slack, and a lot of them are trying and they're doing creative things. But none of them can scale appropriately to have enough journalistic firepower as well.

  

  Edward Greenspon
  • Media
  • Operations
  • Journalistic

• The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Enemies