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The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.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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Mark just doesn't make mistakes. If you watch him, he's mistake-free.
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If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled
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My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.
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Change requires decision making, and decision making requires action. Most churches don't make turnarounds because they never get to the action. Discussion only begets more discussion. Together, and led by the pastor, the church must decide on a course of action.
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The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
