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God uses language to create and command us.

God uses language to create and command us.
– Eugene H Peterson

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  3. Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves. – Eugene H Peterson
  4. To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours. – Denise Domning
  5. Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed? – Anthony North
  6. Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence. – Eugene H Peterson
  7. The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us. – Eugene H Peterson
  8. Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in. – Kester Brewin
  9. Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe. – Debasish Mridha
  10. Preaching reveals God in action here and now — for ME. – Eugene H Peterson
  11. There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to. – Eugene H Peterson
  12. You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  13. Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  14. Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man’s access to) her ??????. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man’s access to) their kids. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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  16. My job is not to solve people’s problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives. – Eugene H Peterson
  17. The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass. – Eugene H Peterson
  18. Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance. – Eugene H Peterson
  19. The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness. – Eugene H Peterson
  20. The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot – Eugene H Peterson
  21. Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy. – Eugene H Peterson
  22. We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human. – Eugene H Peterson
  23. Isn’t it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets? – Eugene H Peterson
  24. You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. – Eugene H Peterson
  25. Without stories we end up with stereotypes — a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR. – Eugene H Peterson
  26. Life is made up of Moments. Moments create Days, days create Months, months create Years, years create LIFE. Lose the Moment and you lose Life. – RVM
  27. Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful.  I don’t care what it is. Create it.  – Jill Telford
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  30. All women speak two languages:-¨the language of men-¨and the language of silent suffering.-¨ Some women speak a third,-¨the language of queens. – Mohja Kahf
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  35. His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique. – Richard Mitchell
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  37. One’s identity derives not from one’s nation or blood but from the language one uses. – Minae Mizumura
  38. One’s identity derives not from one’s nation or blood but from the language one uses. – Minae Mizumura
  39. People who feel pain, that’s common. Someone who uses pain to create, this is an Artist. – Steeven Shaw
  40. Those who can create, will create. Those who cannot create, will compete. – Michael F Bruyn

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