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In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

~Eugene H. Peterson

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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.

~Eugene H. Peterson

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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.

~Eugene H. Peterson

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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.

~Eugene H. Peterson

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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.

~Eugene H. Peterson

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There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.

~Eugene H. Peterson

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One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

~Eugene H. Peterson

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The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.

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If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.

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People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

~Eugene H. Peterson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: November 6th, 1932

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