Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced.
Quotes to Explore
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
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Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.
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I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don't think that we flop around as much. I think we're tough. I mean, I've got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we're gritty. And we're feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
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I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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I've so much respect for Chelsea, and I love them.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.
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The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced.
