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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Nature is one. There is only one truth in life. We have a single universe, which has a sole creator.
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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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You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.
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Blood: A red substance believed to be capable of supporting life but which in a theatrical drama invariably indicates death.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.
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Gay love, God save it, so soone hotte, so soone colde.
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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.
