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We cannot be too careful about the words we use we start out using them and they end up using 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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Stanwood
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People learn to shop for churches there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.
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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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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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If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.
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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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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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No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
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If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.
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Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?
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