Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

Eugene H. Peterson

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• 'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Kind
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• Ways and Means is the committee that tackles the big issues that affects people's lives and their jobs in a major way.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • People

• What the hell is an oboe?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hell
  • Oboe

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Public
  • Respects

• People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Life
  • Expect

• I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Opinions
  • Sincerity
  • Lac

• You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Skills
  • Acquire

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther
  • People
  • Faith
  • Learned

• I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Things
  • Boundaries
  • Surpass

• Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Work
  • I Feel
  • Marrying

• The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Stuff
  • Computer
  • Notebook

• I'm definitely seeing more and more new people at shows, which is exciting. It's nice for me, because it's a fresh start. I don't feel as obligated to play old favorite songs - it feels like I'm free to try new things because I'm meeting people for the first time. But there's a lot of people who are showing up and they know all the words to the first album and they're requesting songs from the second album.

  

  Willy Mason
  • People
  • Trying
  • Favorite

• Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Earth
  • Equality
  • Convert

• I believe we are all born equal. You know, we are, whether you're a boy or a girl, you should have the same equal rights.

  

  Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng
  • Believe
  • Girl
  • Should

• Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Politics
  • Vocation
  • Hobby

• My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Goal

• My father has a beautiful, beautiful voice. His father was a pastor of a church. He sang in church. My mother sang in a church choir. I can take no credit for my vocal talent, because, both my father, and mother have beautiful, beautiful voices.

  

  Deniece Williams
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Church

• The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Vocation
  • Pastor
  • Strategies