Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

Eugene H. Peterson

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• For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Death
  • Desire
  • Write

• People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Death
  • Own

• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • People
  • American
  • Death

• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Man
  • Words

• Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Death
  • Funny
  • Humor

• Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Faith

• Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Death
  • Success
  • Man

• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Age
  • Focus
  • Gift

• Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Sometimes
  • Personality
  • Gift

• I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Long
  • Death

• The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Her

• I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • True
  • Death
  • Fool

• We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Death
  • Alone
  • Doubt

• What is the point of all this violence? Nothing is being proven, nothing is being won. Just a massive waste of life. God help us. Love>death

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Life
  • God
  • Help

• We live in a world where black people are targeted for death and destruction, and we should not be surprised when moments such as these occur - in fact, Charlottesville confirms the violence that black people endure every day.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I am shocked and deeply saddened by McQueen's death. He was a genius, and his talent was second to none. Like many others, I always cited him as a hugely inspirational leader of world fashion. He will be greatly missed.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • World
  • Death
  • Fashion

• I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • People
  • Death

• This is a very pivotal time in America and I think families are still reeling from events depicted in that movie The Big Short.

  

  Bun B
  • America
  • Movie
  • Families

• Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Alone
  • Honor
  • Honesty

• I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Death
  • Gift
  • Intimacy