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All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

Eugene H. Peterson

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Eugene H. Peterson
Age: 85 †
Born: 1932
Born: November 6
Died: 2018
Died: October 22
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Bible Translator
Theologian
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University Teacher
Stanwood
Washington
Sinner
Secure
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Faith
Uneven
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Doubters
Sinners
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I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
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I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.
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The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.
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Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...'I will do my best with what is here.'
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You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
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Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.
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Pity can be nearsighted and condescending shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
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Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
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My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
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Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God it whets our appetite.
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The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
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Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.
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Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.
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