Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.

Eugene H. Peterson

• Faith
• Spirit
• Enthusiasm
• Dust
• First Love

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• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Know

• The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Opportunity
  • Present
  • Problems

• I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

  

  Sally Field
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Dialogue

• There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Prayer

• With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Think
  • Year
  • Grow

• One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Deep

• Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Time
  • First
  • Programming

• I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Know
  • Like
  • Violence

• I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Character
  • Grow

• I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Design

• The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Childhood

• Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Men
  • Game
  • Simple

• I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Air

• It is important to call on God to intervene in our life, especially when we reach the point where we ourselves have become helpless.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

  

  Edward Young
  • Dark
  • Sun

• The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Renunciation
  • Acid Test

• The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Strong
  • Weak
  • Granite

• Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.

  

  Peter Welch
  • People
  • American
  • Faith

• If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Christ
  • Make
  • Complaint

• Sincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed, there is human-heartedness; as things are completed, there is wisdom. This is the virtue of one’s character, and the Way of joining the internal and external. Thus, when we use this, everything is correct.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Wisdom

• O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Faith
  • Spirit
  • Enthusiasm