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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We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.
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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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Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.
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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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Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
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Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
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I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
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Only the person blinded by the passion of controversy could deny that woman in soul and body is formed for a particular purpose. The clear and irrevocable world of Scripture declares what daily experience teaches from the beginning of the world: woman is destined to be wife and mother.
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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.