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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History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God. This statement of a nineteenth-century historian sums up the responsibility of the Christian teacher of history, for he who would teach history or any subject matter rightly, must teach it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God.
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No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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The Southern Baptist Convention, as you know, decided in the year 2000 that women should not be permitted to be pastors or deacons or chaplains in the military service. Some Southern Baptist seminaries don't even permit women to teach male students. I don't agree with that. But they can go in and quote a few passages of Paul that women should be restricted in their services.
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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.
