Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.

Eugene H. Peterson

• God
• Church
• Humans
• Alcohol
• Leaders
• Crowds
• Cross of Christ

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• Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

  

  Warren Spector
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  • World
  • Work

• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Country
  • History
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• It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Good
  • Proud

• I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
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• Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
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• So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World

• Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing more nor less than a theory of the speaking creatures?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Nature

• Dango, Pume, Thwither: down with Visbhume’s breeches; let him hold his backside at the ready.

  

  Jack Vance

• Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Passion without focus can lead you astray.

  

  Ken Auletta
  • Passion
  • Focus

• What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

  

  James Sanborn

• I believe I am connecting to angels and spirit guides and ancestors. All of that is falling under the category of God and the energy presence of God, and that is what I can tap into when I tune in and slow down.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • God
  • Believe
  • Energy

• I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Culture
  • Knowledge
  • Sorry

• You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

  

  Conrad Hall
  • Moving

• In Mexico, you need to be a bulldog to make a movie because everything is set up for you to go back home and get depressed and not do the movie.

  

  Diego Luna
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• It could be the case that all the studies supporting a warming planet are wrong; science always leaves that door open, but anthropogenic climate change remains the best explanation for a mountain of data that scientists have been poring over for a century.

  

  Kyle Hill
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• I believe becoming an adult isn't a good thing for a guy. I think that guys should not forget about its youthful soul. So I want to say that I still have a heart of a baby or an elementary school kid.

  

  Daesung
  • Good
  • Believe
  • School

• After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Up

• God is absolutely holy and wise. His nature, attributes, and power are all holy. He is omnipresent, incorporeal, unborn, immense, omniscient, omnipotent, merciful and just. He is the maker, protector, and destroyer of worlds.

  

  Dayananda Saraswati
  • God
  • Power
  • Nature

• Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Work
  • God
  • Character

• Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Church
  • Humans