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I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Answers Attention Being Giving Going Learn Listen Listeners Must Pastors Pay Pay Attention Quiet Quit Speaking Teaching Think Used Verbal Worst I Think

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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.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Betray Calling Church Enemies Follow Forgive Giving How Jesus Learn Minute Our Pastors People Saying Start Them Then Want

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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.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Being Capable Die How Illusions Intimacy Learn Learning Life Losing Love Now Spiritual Spiritual Life Start True Whole You Your

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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.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Anything Background Become Believe Calling Education Family God His Lives Might Our Our Lives Part Pastor Takes Them Things Think Uses Wastes I Believe

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I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Call Cannot Congregation Fail God His Listen Offer Themselves Word Worship

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Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Badly Because Life Lives Own Pastor People Position Power Religion Ruin Scary Scary Thing Thing Use Very You Your

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Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Baptized Been Being Church Different Doing Going Just Learning Ordinary Pray Reading Receiving Rightly Scriptures Spirituality Stuff Thousand Thousand Years Two Years

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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.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Because Christian Church Except Nobody Other Place Problems Sin Who

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When you are part of a megachurch, you have no responsibility to anybody else.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Anybody Anybody Else Else Part Responsibility You

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American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Advertising American American Culture Appealing Because Christian Culture Ever Full Had Instincts Intertwined Just Least Lies Materialistic Whole World Worst

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: November 6th, 1932

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