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You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

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

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  1. 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
  2. Embellishing a story for whatever reason proves you’re a liar. Doing it in front of someone who knows the truth proves your stupidity. – DS Mixell
  3. Less fear, more courage.Less doubt, more faith.Less talking, more action.Less ignorance, more knowledge. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  4. The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  5. Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ‘religious. – Madeleine LEngle
  6. I guess it’s true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people. – CJ Anderson
  7. Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream. – Eugene H Peterson
  8. 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
  9. We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us. – Eugene H Peterson
  10. The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass. – Eugene H Peterson
  11. God uses language to create and command us. – Eugene H Peterson
  12. Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence. – Eugene H Peterson
  13. Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance. – Eugene H Peterson
  14. The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness. – Eugene H Peterson
  15. The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot – Eugene H Peterson
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy. – Eugene H Peterson
  19. Preaching reveals God in action here and now — for ME. – Eugene H Peterson
  20. 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
  21. Isn’t it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets? – Eugene H Peterson
  22. 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
  23. Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. – John R Dallas Jr
  24. When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech. – Dada Bhagwan
  25. Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. – Roland Barthes
  26. If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech. – DaShanne Stokes
  27. A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  28. More than ever at that instant did she long for speech – speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray. – LM Montgomery
  29. In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense. – Barbara W Tuchman
  30. It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you’re trying to say. – Chuck Palahniuk
  31. Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
  32. The science of a religious man must be scientific the religion of a scientific man must be religious. – Fulton J Sheen
  33. I’ve fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay ‘religious freedom’ bills aren’t it. – DaShanne Stokes
  34. You can be RELIGIOUS without being SPIRITUAL or You can be SPIRITUAL without being RELIGIOUS or Both It all depends on your Philosophy. – Constance Chuks Friday
  35. I don’t assign myself to the names of any religious or non religious groups I prefer my actions and beliefs to be manic or marvelous just like me – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  36. The more you keep your religious beliefs concealed from others, the lesser religious conflicts occur in the society. – Abhijit Naskar
  37. Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins… – T Rafael Cimino
  38. We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people. – Mark Driscoll
  39. He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god. – Henning Mankell
  40. We all are manufacturers in a way – making good, making trouble or making excuses. – H V Adolt

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