Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

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• Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence
  • Go

• People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • People
  • Done
  • Practice

• Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Movie
  • City
  • Weird

• Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Real
  • Man
  • Lost

• The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Opportunity
  • Perfect

• Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • City
  • Happiness
  • Service

• If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

  

  Claudette Colbert
  • Die
  • Laugh

• Time is the least thing we have.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Wise

• In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading

• Oh of course it pleased me, it pleased me greatly. But I also felt as if my body had the consistency of egg shell, and a slight pressure on my arm, on my forehead, on my stomach would be enough to break it and dig out all my secrets, in particular those which were secrets even to me.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Pressure
  • Secrets

• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Fail
  • Could
  • Expense

• We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Victory
  • Mistakes
  • Fail

• If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Business
  • Fail
  • Details

• I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Fail
  • Congregation
  • Worship God