Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.
Quotes to Explore
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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I don't get claustrophobic.
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Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.
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Wedding Singer taught us we shouldnt be afraid of making people feel emotional in the middle of the movie, rather than just dealing with comedy.
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Cooperation with tyranny should not be embraced for the sake of profits.
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You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?
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It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.
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You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
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A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.
