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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 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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Pity can be nearsighted and condescending shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
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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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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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Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
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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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Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
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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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Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.
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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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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
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It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.
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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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Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
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You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
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Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.
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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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Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?
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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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People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
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