Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

Eugene H. Peterson

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• Human Existence
• Sacramental

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• My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Great
  • Done
  • Kids

• Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Wait
  • Minute

• I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Comedy

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• I choose work with the people I like to work with.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Choose

• What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Know
  • Best
  • Spirit

• The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Life
  • High

• I'm not surprised, motherfuckers.

  

  Nate Diaz

• βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ μέγαςβέβηκεν.

  

  Aeschylus

• My mum, Helen, was hilarious. She had a tremendous sense of humour and was a great singer and tap dancer. For many years, she was the voice of Minnie Mouse in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She would be in the float as it came along, singing whatever the Minnie Mouse song of the day was. She was a really big spirit in my life.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• I have decided not to run for the U.S. Senate and instead continue my efforts to make California a better place to live, work, and raise a family. We have come a long way, but our work is not done, and neither am I.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Work
  • Long
  • Live

• Every episode of 'The Conversation' was created to be a platform for women, to connect women, and to allow women's voices to be heard as much as possible. That's why I launched that show on a television network and online simultaneously.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Women
  • Why

• There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

  

  Charles Kennedy

• You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

  

  Curt Siodmak
  • People

• Enjoy and have fun when you're a kid, because you are a kid.

  

  Freddie Freeman
  • Fun

• There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

  

  John Keats
  • Nature
  • Wonder
  • Fire

• I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

  

  Jonathan Frakes

• I'm bout that fast money, money ain't got no patience. But if them boys come run like you on probation.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Money
  • Running
  • Patience

• Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Hate

• There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Energy
  • Experiences
  • Female

• Good friends find pleasure in one another's company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who can do everything for us, a friend who loves us beyond measure. Here in the Blessed Sacrament we can talk to him straight from the heart. We can open our souls to him, tell him what we need, beg him for powerful graces. We are perfectly free to approach the King of the universe with full confidence and without fear.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Friends

• You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Love
  • Ocean

• Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Friendship
  • Human Existence
  • Sacramental