"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."

-- Eugene H. Peterson

#Roles Quotes #Individual Quotes #Abstract Quotes

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”
“I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.”
“Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.”

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2009). “While My Sister Sleeps”, p.270, Anchor
“They just talk drivel. Whoever is winning is great, whoever isn't, isn't. It's banal. And also semi-literate at times ... they never criticise in an intelligent way. Anything that isn't banal is said to be an outburst. They've created this cartoon world where everyone talks like Lineker and says nothing.”
“I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.”
“Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted.”
“We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.”

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