Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.
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This is a medical service. It always was.
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If the law tries to legislate our 'yeses' and 'noes' it will produce 'the straitjacket generation' – a generation afraid to flirt, fearful of finding its love notes in a court suit. Date rape legislation will force suitors and courting to give way to courts and suing.
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One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.
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I wanna be your happiness.I wanna be your common sense pain.
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Passion without focus can lead you astray.
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If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.
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With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
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I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.
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At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.
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The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
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Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
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If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
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Love isn't like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.
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She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing to admit it.
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When I fly to Chile to surf or go snowboarding in Russia or some other adventure, I try to include the family when I can and go see friends along the way.
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The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day. It's as simple as that.
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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You don't need your eyes to love. You just feel it inside you.
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Where did you learn your charm—the gulag?
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I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not.
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I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.
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Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.
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Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.
