Eugene Peterson On Pastoring Quotes & Sayings

I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect love, a human love. In this time of uncertainty, can I continue to love, even if it breaks my heart? — Velcrow Ripper

submarines in another. Soon a third — Charles D. Taylor

Our perspective equals our reality, tweak the perspective and you tweak your reality. — Sam Owen

Writing is not a literary act but spiritual. And pastoring is not managing a religious business but a spiritual quest. — Eugene H. Peterson

I clung to him like my life depended on it. Maybe it did. I hadn't seen him for so many years, and so much had happened in my life since I had last seen his face, but at that moment I was thirteen again. Someone I had loved had returned, someone lost had come back to me, and I held him fiercely, with no intention of ever letting him go. — Amy Harmon

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home. — Laura Schlessinger

Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability. — Adam Savage

Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things. — Tupac Shakur

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path. — Alex Rodriguez

If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up. — Jodi Picoult

Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage. — Romesh Gunesekera

Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever. — Novak Djokovic