Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.
Quotes to Explore
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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I adored my father.
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To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
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Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.
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On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.' And they can show me the screen, and I can be like, 'I know exactly what to do here.'
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
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I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.
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In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story.
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I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.
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When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's what brings leaders in Turkey to attack Israel the way they do. When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's why we see the leader of Iran... continuing to build the nuclear reactors.
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As anyone who has started a company knows, it's pretty common not to see any income for months.
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There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.
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There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.
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But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.
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My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.
