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Eugene H. Peterson

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Eugene H. Peterson
Age: 85 †
Born: 1932
Born: November 6
Died: 2018
Died: October 22
Author
Bible Translator
Theologian
Translator
University Teacher
Stanwood
Washington
Verbal
Hospitality
Acts
Stories

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The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.
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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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Love is not a word that describes my feelings it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.
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We've all met a certain type of spiritual person. She's a wonderful person. She loves the Lord. She prays and reads the Bible all the time. But all she thinks about is herself. She's not a selfish person. But she's always at the center of everything she's doing.
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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
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If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
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Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.
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When you are part of a megachurch you have no responsibility to anybody else.
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Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
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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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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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I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.
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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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