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.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Service

• If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • She

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Law

• One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Trust

• I wanna be your happiness.I wanna be your common sense pain.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Pain

• Passion without focus can lead you astray.

  

  Ken Auletta
  • Passion
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Country
  • America
  • Struggle

• With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.

  

  Bob Filner
  • Health

• I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.

  

  Max Irons

• 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.

  

  Eric Christian Olsen
  • World
  • School
  • Art

• Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Black

• The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Lie
  • Satan
  • Deception

• Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Judged

• If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Feel
  • Matter

• Love isn't like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Money
  • Love
  • For Her

• Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Logic

• 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.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She

• Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Work
  • Plans
  • Difficulty

• Okay. Enough." I got out of the closet, brushing myself off, then turned around to face her. "This is happening. So you need to go downstairs, face your fears, and make the best of it, and everything will be okay." She narrowed her eyes at me. "When did you suddenly become so positive?" "Just get out of there.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Eye
  • Enough
  • Needs

• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Possible

• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • High
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Scripture
  • Imaginative
  • Pastors