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Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

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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Bible Translator
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Stanwood
Washington
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Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
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The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.
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People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
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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 are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.
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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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It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.
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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 minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.
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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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