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The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.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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It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
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As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.
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We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.
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I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.
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The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
