Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff.

Eugene H. Peterson

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• I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Political

• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Religion
  • Ego
  • Losing

• I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Sometimes
  • Hands
  • Happen

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• I understand only three things - films, fitness, and food.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Food
  • Understand
  • Fitness

• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

  

  Benjamin Harrison
  • World
  • God
  • Police

• No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

  

  Edward Livingston
  • Suffering
  • Slavery

• All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

  

  James Sanborn
  • School
  • Book
  • High

• It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music
  • Unique

• I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

  

  Jhonen Vasquez
  • People
  • Book
  • Hate

• My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.

  

  Katie Price
  • Trying
  • Dream

• Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

  

  Kristen Johnston

• Heroes aren't always people who save others in the normal sense. Sometimes they're people who keep trying even when things seem impossible.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • People
  • Trying

• The future has never been something that I've been able to plan. Every time I try - I don't care if it's three or four days ahead or a week ahead - it just doesn't pan out.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Time
  • Future

• In 1987 I got dartitis, a psychological condition which means you can't let your darts go properly. For a time, I wondered what the hell I was going to do if I didn't recover. But I remained positive and, thankfully, got over it. It occurred during the Swedish Open when I found I couldn't let the darts go.

  

  Eric Bristow
  • Time
  • Positive

• I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Long
  • Society
  • Judge

• My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.

  

  Caroline B. Cooney
  • Book

• Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Friend

• All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Children
  • She
  • Death

• "Spirituality comes from questioning everything but at the same time accepting everything. You can even be spiritual watching TV. When the ad comes on and says, "Don't hate me because I am beautiful," question that."

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Hate

• I'm using more energy than ever.

  

  Raphael Saadiq
  • Energy

• Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Church
  • Pray
  • Spirituality