Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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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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I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
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革命战争是群众的战争，只有动员群众才能进行战争，只有依靠群众才能进行战争。
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.
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I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself.
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I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.
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The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.
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My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, 'Garden, Papa!' and then he eats what he picks.
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In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.
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When I read comics, they were dense stories. When you put them down, there was a sense of having gotten a great deal from them.
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It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
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Four personalities are bound to clash.
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How our government works... it doesn't.
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If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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In the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are many Aramaic texts from the time of Jesus, so one can get a pretty good idea of what the language of Jesus looked liked.
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The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control. This is the outcome of allowing Jesus to satisfy every area of life to its depth. The picture resulting from such a life is that of the strong, calm balance that our Lord gives to those who are intimate with Him.
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There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
