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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
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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I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.
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People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
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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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Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God it whets our appetite.
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Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.
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Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
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