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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.
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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The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.
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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.
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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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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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Pity can be nearsighted and condescending shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
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People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
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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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Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.
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I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.
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That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
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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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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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The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.
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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
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