Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge!
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.
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And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.
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We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.
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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
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Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.
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The kids today, they want to run. In order to sell that program to that kids they have to buy into it. Most kids don't want to play like that.
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A simple right or left can mean life or death,
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.
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Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and at its best when human weakness is most profound. Appropriate it and learn that those who wait on God are stronger in their weakness than the sons of men in their stoutest health and vigor.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
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A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.
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It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
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Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge!
