Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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'Well,' he said. 'Strange roads have strange guides. Let’s go on.'
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But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.
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I like walking on the edge.
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Whoever's president I'm not going to be short on material.
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What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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That’s who we were, wartorn meadows on the verge of new growth.
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Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.
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I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
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All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
