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Eugene H. Peterson
Age: 85 †
Born: 1932
Born: November 6
Died: 2018
Died: October 22
Author
Bible Translator
Theologian
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University Teacher
Stanwood
Washington
Verbal
Hospitality
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Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.
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Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God it whets our appetite.
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There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.
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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
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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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Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.
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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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Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.
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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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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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One of the reasons that Christians read Scripture repeatedly and carefully is to find out just how God works in Jesus Christ so that we can work in the name of Jesus Christ.
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The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.
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A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.
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