Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.Eugene H. Peterson
Quotes to Explore
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
Malala Yousafzai -
I love cooking and baking.
Rachel Bilson -
If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
Nate Silver -
What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
Vaclav Klaus -
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Fawn M. Brodie -
I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
Vanessa Brown
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Whatever limits us we call Fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.
Orson Scott Card -
It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
Orson Scott Card -
'Lieutenant Crosshaw says you are a special case!' bellowed Helve. 'I do not like special cases! Special cases do not make good soldiers! Special cases do not help other recruits become good soldiers! Therefore, you will not be a special case! You understand me!' 'I think so-' 'Shut up! That was not a question!'
Garth Nix -
Perhaps, The man-hero is not the exceptional monster, But he that of repetition is most master.
Wallace Stevens -
The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.
Sam Harris
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I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.
Lenny Bruce -
Ma 'l populo facea come i più fanno,Ch'ubbidiscon più a quei che più in odio hanno.
Ludovico Ariosto -
A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
Elie Wiesel -
It is evident that the Church is always abandoning more the old traditional structures of European life and, therefore, is changing its appearance and living new forms in itself. It's clear most of all that the de-Christianization of Europe is progressing, that the Christian element is always vanishing more from the fabric of society.
Pope Benedict XVI -
I think our family motto is to always work hard, be humble, kind, and thoughtful about others around us.
Anwar Hadid
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For an individual, playback singing is not enough to sustain a career, and it is not really a main source of income.
Armaan Malik -
The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.
Oswald Chambers -
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
Christina Rossetti -
Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?
Yann Martel -
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.
Eugene H. Peterson