Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
Quotes to Explore
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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I believe in numbers and signs.
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The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again … It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.
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So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.
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Today is reality. Yesterday is history.
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For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.
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There was never a time when I wasn't making guitars out of cardboard or dressing up like the Misfits.
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The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.
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At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.
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The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.
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When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.
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People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.
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You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does it make?
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Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
