"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."

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Eugene H. Peterson

#Christian Quotes #Church Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.”
“learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.”
“Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.”
“If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.”
“I think you have to play your own game and sometimes people don't realise that the play-maker runs the most kilometres on the pitch!”
“Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.”
“Belief is the capacity to see not only life's surfaces but also its holy depths, to be able to look at events unfolding around us but also to look through them, above them and beneath them to preceive what is truly happening.”
“But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.”

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