Eugene H. Peterson
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA KEITH RICHARDS GEORGE MACDONALD I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN TOM CRUISE V.C. ANDREWS I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I lov... AYUMI HAMASAKI SHIRO AMANO PABLO NERUDA Wanting something badly even though it could hurt you," Bentley repeated. He looked up at the ceilin... NELLIE CHRISTINE When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t... GARY F EVANS... 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's... TEGAN QUIN I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do wh... AYUMI HAMASAKI Just do what you love. This is what I am doing. ANGELIQUE KERBER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TOM CRUISE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see thingsE.J. PATTEN GERMANY KENT Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends. ~WALT DISNEY JEFFREY FRY AUDRE LORDE In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago... JESS ROW ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN I wasn't sure what to expect. What can be better than getting paid to do something you love? I want ... JANERIO SPURLOCK Be best version of yourself. Do the best .Believe in what you can do, and than you will be able to p... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA LIN DAN I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I l... LIL' KIM ULYSSES S. GRANT MAGIC JOHNSON YAYOI KUSAMA I could not have done anymore, I had pushed myself to a limit that I had never touched before and th... ELVIS STOJKO FAREED ZAKARIA DAVID JENKINS The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the int... NAJIB MIKATI I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interes... KAREN ALLEN TOM CRUISE JOHN MAYER IYANLA VANZANT Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love. TREAT WILLIAMS I know that education changes lives and I believe that children must be given every opportunity to l... JULIE STEFFEY I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of ki... ANTHONY PETTIS EZEKIEL ELLIOTT CRAIG GROESCHEL DWYANE WADE JAY-Z ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues. CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel. CAROL PLUM-UCCI CRAIG GROESCHEL ANGELA DUCKWORTH EDWARD SAID CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I probably need to vent my frustrations to others more than I do. In some ways, I've amazed myself a... STAN JAMES In the first set I went out and played my game. The second set I let her play my game. In the third ... COURTNEY JONES CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass.... JIM CAVIEZEL GERMANY KENT CRAIG GROESCHEL Every day God proves to me that I can do it better than I ever imagined through Him. DEDRICK D. L. PITTER C. JOYBELL C. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ... LISA J. SHULTZ I know what I need to do to prepare myself, and I try to do the best I can to take care of my body a... BEN ZOBRIST CRAIG GROESCHEL JOE NAMATH WALT WHITMAN I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able t... 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If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonali... EUGENE H. PETERSON If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too... EUGENE H. PETERSON The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worshi... EUGENE H. PETERSON It is useful to reflect that the word 'liturgy' did not originate in church or worship settings. In ... EUGENE H. PETERSON American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so ma... EUGENE H. PETERSON Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to ... EUGENE H. PETERSON The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The p... EUGENE H. PETERSON People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored. EUGENE H. PETERSON One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something... EUGENE H. PETERSON I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part ... EUGENE H. PETERSON There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written... EUGENE H. PETERSON I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, th... EUGENE H. PETERSON Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We... EUGENE H. PETERSON [Jesus] said “Follow me” and ended up with a lot of losers. And these losers ended up, through n... EUGENE H. PETERSON I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business. EUGENE H. PETERSON Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in... EUGENE H. PETERSON I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We... EUGENE H. PETERSON (from chapter 26, "Emmaus Walks")EUGENE H. PETERSON So much of the time it is not complacency that threatens but its opposite, impetuosity. We see somet... EUGENE H. PETERSON We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us. EUGENE H. PETERSON The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only... EUGENE H. PETERSON I am interested in cultivating the fundamentally holy nature of all language, including most definit... EUGENE H. PETERSON (from chapter 29, "Write In a Book What You See")EUGENE H. PETERSON (from chapter 29, "Write in a Book What You See')EUGENE H. PETERSON (from chapter 24, "Heather-scented Theology")EUGENE H. PETERSON (from chapter 16, "Catacombs Presbyterian Church"):EUGENE H. PETERSON (from chapter 20, "Bezalel")EUGENE H. PETERSON (from chapter 20, "Bezalel")EUGENE H. PETERSON (from chapter 19, "Willi Ossa")EUGENE H. PETERSON It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the ve... EUGENE H. PETERSON Because they are so emphatically there, and so inconvertibly interior, it is almost inevitable that ... EUGENE H. PETERSON I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off ... EUGENE H. PETERSON The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Je... EUGENE H. PETERSON That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you ... EUGENE H. PETERSON If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary l... EUGENE H. PETERSON Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that powe... EUGENE H. PETERSON The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. ... EUGENE H. PETERSON You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound... EUGENE H. PETERSON In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too m... EUGENE H. PETERSON People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being at... EUGENE H. PETERSON The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we be... EUGENE H. PETERSON Intentions must mature into commitments if we are to become persons with definition, with character,... EUGENE H. PETERSON EUGENE PETERSON EUGENE PETERSON EUGENE PETERSON EUGENE PETERSON EUGENE PETERSON EUGENE PETERSON EUGENE PETERSON EUGENE PETERSON EUGENE PETERSON She can refresh his recollection with a piece of green cheese, if that will help. EUGENE H. NICKERSON The Man of Power is one who presides—H. BURKE PETERSON H. H. H. H. H. Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman comm... EUGENE KENNEDY Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many ... EUGENE KENNEDY Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft... EUGENE JARECKI EUGENE IONESCO EUGENE MCCARTHY EUGENE MCCARTHY Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928. EUGENE O'NEILL The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experi... EUGENE O'NEILL The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy th... EUGENE KENNEDY The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experi... EUGENE O'NEILL It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of t... EUGENE JARECKI Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. EUGENE O'NEILL I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame;EUGENE O'NEILL If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as t... EUGENE O'NEILL The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bri... EUGENE CERNAN We are all dead men on leave. EUGENE LEVINE EUGENE IONESCO EUGENE FIELD His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party ... EUGENE JARECKI EUGENE SUE Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something ... EUGENE MIRMAN If you're at a party with more than five people named Chad, get the fuck out right away. EUGENE MIRMAN EUGENE IONESCO I lay on the bowsprit, with the water foaming into spume under me, the masts with every sail white i... EUGENE O'NEILL Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. EUGENE O'NEILL EUGENE FIELD EUGENE IONESCO EUGENE IONESCO We are the party of all labor. The whole earth shall be ours to share. And every race and craft our ... EUGENE POTTIER EUGENE DELACROIX One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. EUGENE O'NEILL EUGENE FIELD EUGENE IONESCO EUGENE DELACROIX When men make gods, there is no God! EUGENE O'NEILL EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE DELACROIX Happiness hates the timid! So does science! EUGENE O'NEILL For a moment I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free! I belonged, without past or futur... EUGENE O'NEILL EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE MCCARTHY EUGENE IONESCO EUGENE IONESCO EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE IONESCO EUGENE IONESCO EUGENE DEBS EUGENE FIELD Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. EUGENE O'NEILL EUGENE DEBS EUGENE BENGE EUGENE MCCARTHY EUGENE DEBS EUGENE IONESCO EUGENE IONESCO EUGENE BENGE EUGENE FIELD Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. EUGENE O'NEILL EUGENE IONESCO If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true ... EUGENE EDWARDS EUGENE FIELD If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as... EUGENE O'NEILL EUGENE IONESCO EUGENE FIELD EUGENE FIELD EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE IONESCO EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE MCCARTHY Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wa... EUGENE CERNAN EUGENE IONESCO Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he sa... EUGENE JARECKI Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who... EUGENE JARECKI Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have b... EUGENE KENNEDY Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has ... EUGENE KENNEDY EUGENE IONESCO The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with ... EUGENE KENNEDY Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it und... EUGENE KENNEDY The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the im... EUGENE KENNEDY We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, whi... EUGENE CERNAN EUGENE IONESCO This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the ... EUGENE LEVY EUGENE FIELD Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens... EUGENE MIRMAN EUGENE MCCARTHY People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. EUGENE CERNAN Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures t... EUGENE CERNAN To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has al... EUGENE CERNAN EUGENE IONESCO As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the ... EUGENE KENNEDY If you ask people what attracted them to the person they love, they never tell you of some perfect f... EUGENE KENNEDY After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a sp... EUGENE CERNAN To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience. EUGENE JARVIS In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. ... EUGENE KENNEDY EUGENE FIELD I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I ... EUGENE CERNAN State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pen... EUGENE FAMA Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life... EUGENE KENNEDY There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from... EUGENE KENNEDY EUGENE DELACROIX The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are abl... EUGENE O'NEILL I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not... EUGENE LEVY Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not r... EUGENE KENNEDY The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring backgro... EUGENE CERNAN Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a d... EUGENE CERNAN Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at expl... EUGENE FAMA Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as ... EUGENE CERNAN We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we wen... EUGENE CERNAN Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch. EUGENE JARECKI I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill. EUGENE CERNAN I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I p... EUGENE CHADBOURNE EUGENE IONESCO Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, s... EUGENE CERNAN Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist... EUGENE WIGNER EUGENE MCCARTHY EUGENE MCCARTHY EUGENE DELACROIX One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see,... EUGENE CERNAN EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE CLOUTIER EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE IONESCO EUGENE DEBS EUGENE MCCARTHY EUGENE DELACROIX Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kin... EUGENE MIRMAN EUGENE MCCARTHY Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. EUGENE KENNEDY EUGENE DELACROIX I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt a... EUGENE LEVY is a look at what happens on a movie set when the word Oscar gets bandied about. EUGENE LEVY 'American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered s... EUGENE LEVY I am the common man, ... I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get p... EUGENE LEVY Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough ... EUGENE LEVY EUGENE IONESCO The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public ... EUGENE JARECKI The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and u... EUGENE KENNEDY EUGENE DEBS EUGENE DEBS
Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... 
Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... 
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If you're confused about what to do,
We both know... that soon everything is going to end...
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... 
People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w... 
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. 
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... 
Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit... 
You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is ... 
But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help t... 
Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love. 
You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and that... 
About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I... 
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... 
I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... 
I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quart... 
I love you,” was his reply. “I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I've got to ... 
Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world! 
I love you in order to begin loving you,
And what love can do, that does love attempt. 
I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters,... 
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When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out. 
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow ... 
A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? 
Win or lose, I believe in giving my best and that is what I always do. 
I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, wit... 
I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never ... 
I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and l... 
When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do wha... 
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more. 
I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. 
I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to st... 
The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come i... 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
I've only scratched the surface of where I want to be in my career, ... And I know one thing, I have... 
I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it. 
Human is what he decides to be. 
trying to do things they can't yet do, failing, and learning what they need to do differently is exa... 
I don't myself believe in a two-state solution. I believe in a one-state solution. 
I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pou... 
If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax. 
No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore. 
I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I ha... 
What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do. 
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, 
We neither of us perform to strangers. 
To-do list : to-do list! 
With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that... 
I often found myself prefering the company of people outside my congregation, men and women who did ... 
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It's a good first step. 
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. 
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. 
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road... 
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco. 
The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t... 
One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ... 
All human joys are swift of wing,
For heaven doth so allot it;
That when you get an easy thing... 
Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty. 
The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I ... 
Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to hav... 
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet. 
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. 
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. 
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing... 
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are ... 
While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while t... 
Getters don't get -- givers get. 
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game... 
To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of othe... 
I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Mose... 