Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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Ways and Means is the committee that tackles the big issues that affects people's lives and their jobs in a major way.
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What the hell is an oboe?
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.
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People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.
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The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.
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I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.
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You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.
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When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.
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I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.
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Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.
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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.
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The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep?
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Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
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Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.
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Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
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The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
