"The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment."

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Source : Eugene H. Peterson (2009). “Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best”, p.150, InterVarsity Press

Eugene H. Peterson

#Jobs Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Weather Quotes

“As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.”
“If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. ... They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.”
“God's heartâ€¦is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.”
“I love doing yoga and also enjoy going for regular walks.”
“But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.”
“There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.”

Source : Independent, November 25, 1998.
“Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.”
“Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.”

Source : Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 5, 2003.

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